Author Archives: Louis

Starting Pocket Neighborhoods

It’s been an interesting experience so far from building a tiny house to seeing the foundations of modern architecture to understanding how developers evaluate risks. At this point, I still think tiny houses are cool. Is anyone going to be … Continue reading

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Real Estate Analysis Project

For our analysis class we were given a project to do an analysis on a potential investment given $250,000 that could be leveraged. I chose to do an apartment complex since multi-family is doing relatively well now in our current … Continue reading

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Trends: Residential, Development, Adaptive Reuse, and Transportation

This is the last post in the Real Estate Trends and Issues series. It covers the last three days of topics since we toured Wednesday, we discussed on Thursday and then we have topics for today (Friday) but no class. … Continue reading

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Trends: Recycle Revolution

We met in Dallas at Recycle Revolution for this class. This one didn’t have much to do with real estate either but it was still an interesting trend. This facility is a recycling facilitator rather than a recycling facility themselves. … Continue reading

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Trends: The BRIT, Emerging Markets, Private Equity, Mezzanine Finance and Investing

On Tuesday we took a field trip to The Botanical Research Institute of Texas because it was LEED Platinum. Then we returned to class and discussed the rest of the topics. It’s been interesting to see LEED projects up close … Continue reading

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Trends: Hospitality, International Property and Debt Markets

We compacted two class discussions into yesterday’s discussion since we don’t have class on Fridays but do have writing assignments. The full list of topics assigned for Friday and Monday were hospitality, travel, resorts, international property, debt markets, lending, financing, … Continue reading

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Trends: Industrial Markets, Low-Income Housing, Taxes and Government

Today we were planning to discuss Industrial Markets, Low-Income Housing, Taxes and Government. Instead, we went on a field trip to see two green built homes. The first was done by the daughter of a green builder. They’d bought a … Continue reading

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Trends: Retail Markets, Internet and Technology, and Social Media

For retail, mobile technology is a game changer. Everything about retail is being changed by the internet, technology and social media. What’s not changing is that retail establishments that want to do well need to have well trained salespeople. It … Continue reading

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Trends: The Office Market, Sustainability and Green Development

For the office market what we’re seeing is that there’s currently enough of it already built. Some consultants are encouraging companies to downsize their offices – do more in the same amount of space. Companies are also generally avoiding long … Continue reading

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Trends: Personal Interests, Education and Employment

Our first class was on our individual personal interests, education and employment in real estate trends. My personal interests in real estate trends are in the interconnectedness of cities. I think there’s a lot more going on there than either … Continue reading

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