Thursday, June 21, 2012

A More Critical Look at “Skyscraper Index” Theory

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           Shanghai Financial District skyline April 2012 -- A harbinger of doom for China?                         Cranes behind Aurora To...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Academia and International Real Estate

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A good appraiser should have a solid academic foundation as well as empirically derived knowledge. I have seen appraisers who did not und...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Guide to the most popular International Appraiser posts

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Google Blogger lets me know which posts are read the most.   By far the most popular post has been “New South China Mall: World’s Largest F...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

South African game farm values: A farm agent responds from the Waterberg

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                                             Game ranch in the Waterberg I had two posts last year about the decline in South African gam...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Tepotzotlan, Mexico, revisited: The Danger of Hypothetical Conditions in Appraisals

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Maybe once a year I get feedback from a client such as this: “ We hired an internationally famous brokerage firm to revalue the property yo...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Appraisal of a Condo Project in Harlem

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I normally limit posts on this blog to my international work, although 60% of my work is domestic. I do not expect most readers to be inter...
Friday, May 18, 2012

The International Appraiser in the press – Germany, Costa Rica, Canada

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In the March 2012 issue of Canadian Real Estate Magazine , reporter Sarah Megginson interviewed me for advice to Canadian investors about pu...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Shenyang and PCRT update

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As reported in the April 25th edition of Retail Traffic , “Shenyang, China was the most active market for new development [in the world] in ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Latin American Land Grabs from Absentee Owners

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Squatter housing in Mexico When performing market research in Latin America, I heavily consult broker web sites, some of which require me ...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Shanghai's Lujiazui financial district and "Skyscraper Index Theory"

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From left to right: Shanghai World Financial Center , Jin Mao Tower , and the intended 2073-foot Shanghai Tower under construction The la...