Sunday, June 29, 2014

Appraisal of a proposed resort project near the Canadian Rockies

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  Curiously dead ground vegetation for a proposed vacation resort These were 130 acres in a town west of the Canadian Rockies popular with...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Another appraisal assignment in Nayarit, Mexico raises red flags of possible fraud

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This was the appraisal of nearly 1000 hectares (over 2000 acres) of beachfront land, my third appraisal in Nayarit. There were many red f...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Another appraisal in the Bakken area of North Dakota/Canada

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Bakken is a subsurface shale formation underneath North Dakota , Montana , South Dakota , Saskatchewan and Manitoba and has become th...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

Another Appraisal at Playa Novillero, Mexico

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This assignment called for the appraisal of 91 hectares of beachfront land at Playa Novillero very near some land I previously appraised...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

An Appraisal in Nigeria, Land of Inconvenient Factoids

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Ikoyi neighborhood in Lagos A factoid is defined by Wikipedia as “ a questionable or spurious (unverified, false, or fabricated) state...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Discounted Cash Flow Analysis throughout the world – Who does it right and who does it wrong?

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I entered the appraisal profession at an opportune time – in the mid-1980s, when discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis had come into v...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

HUA ZHU HOTELS GROUP AND CHINA’S MIDSCALE HOTEL MARKET

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Beijing's Wangfujing Night Market, a popular tourist spot.  One of the closest stalls in the photo sells barbecued scorpions. In tra...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Commercial Real Estate Values Rising Due to Cap Rate Compression

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My previous posts have discussed this situation in Hong Kong and Singapore , but the same phenomenon is at work in the U.S. , too. http:/...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

An Appraisal in the Bakken area near the U.S.-Canadian border

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A “ man-camp ” erected to house incoming oil workers, 99% of whom are male. At this man-camp, each worker gets an 8’ by 10’ room including...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Declining golf course values in Asia parallel U.S. golf industry decline

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The recently closed Kajang Hills Golf Club in a southern suburb of Kuala Lumpur Revenues per golf course in the United States have been d...
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