Real estate investments placed in seperate class by S&P and MSCI
9/13/2016 | Real Estate Blog
Many investors in Pennsylvania and around the country still think of the 2008 mortgage crisis and subsequent financial meltdown when they consider putting their money into real estate, but several years of healthy returns have nurtured at least some confidence in the nation’s property markets. The real estate sector has outperformed most other notable benchmarks in recent years, and these investments were placed in a separate class by MSCI and the S&P Dow Jones Indices on Sept.1.
REITs to be reclassified
9/10/2016 | Real Estate Blog
Investors in Pennsylvania who have real estate as part of their investment portfolio may be aware that equity real estate investment trusts, also known as REITs, will be reclassified into a separate sector from the financials sectors. This will have a number of implications for investors.
Crowdsourcing becomes a popular real estate financing option
9/2/2016 | Real Estate Blog
Much has been written in recent months about a credit crunch that real estate buyers and investors in Pennsylvania and around the country may soon be forced to contend with. However, there is one part of the commercial real estate financing sector that has been growing rapidly. Crowdsourcing has grown from a cottage industry to a multi-billion dollar economic powerhouse in just a few short years.
Chinese appetite for U.S. real estate still strong
8/29/2016 | Real Estate Blog
Pennsylvania investors who follow the U.S. residential and commercial real estate markets are likely aware that their Chinese counterparts have been very active in recent years. During the 1980s, iconic American properties like the golf complex at Pebble Beach and New York City’s Art Deco landmark Rockefeller Center were scooped up by Japanese investors, but Chinese nationals now make up the largest group of foreign property buyers.
County has zoning problem in emergency dispatch project
8/27/2016 | Real Estate Blog
Officials in a Pennsylvania county are having a difficult time completing construction of an emergency communications system. For the past two years, Montgomery County officials say that they have been trying to convince township supervisors in Upper Merion to give them the zoning rights to construct a 180-foot tower. The $36 million project requires 30 towers, and so far all but one of the towers has been built.
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