

If there’s a truth I’ve learned working on projects across 25 countries last year, people are more alike than they are different. And that matters, deeply, when your job is occupier solutions tenant. At its heart, this line of work (done right) isn’t about square...
A young surveyor reflects

Japan: a real estate windfall
A quiet shift is gaining momentum in Japan which has the potential to reshape the country’s commercial real estate landscape. After years of slow progress, corporate governance reforms are starting to shift how Japanese companies manage their balance sheets, which...
Japan: a real estate windfall

The US$ vs Treasury yields: one of them is about to give
A trade deal between the U.S. and China was supposed to be one of the things that would mark a return to normality for the markets and maybe even ignite the next leg of the bull market. Even though we got one last week (who knows what’s actually a part of the deal,...
The US$ vs Treasury yields: one of them is about to give

The CRE future is data but not as you know it
How the market for CRE data is evolving, and who the winners may be. Real estate investing has quietly undergone a massive shift in recent years as the production and distribution of CRE data has proliferated. As a market once defined by local knowledge, most real...
The CRE future is data but not as you know it

The big lie of AI
I had a friend from my time living in Sag Harbor who is sadly gone from us now, Anthony “Tony” Brandt, who was married to my equally good friend, Lorraine Dusky. I bring up Tony today because he and the way he lived his life illustrate what is so different about us –...
The big lie of AI