Category Archives: Real Estate

Real Estate Value

What is real estate value? It isn’t what you have into your house. What is real estate value? It isn’t what you have into your house. It isn’t what you feel it

Like Mao Said, Real Estate isn’t a Dinner Party

Ho ho ho! On December 21st, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) will gift the nation with the true number of existing home sales between 2007 and 2010. The NAR’s inflated numbers were flagged

Foreign capital flowing out of Vietnam

Foreign portfolio investment capital flow to Vietnam has nearly stopped, investment funds have been trying to sell securities, while there is no sign showing that they would come back. The bad debt

Cloud Computing turned into Real Estate Business

There have been several news reports this year that suggest cloud computing centers in China are turning into real estate development projects: local governments and financial investors used the concept to reclaim large pieces

Michael Gross’ Own Unreal Estate

After reveling in the publication of his new book on Los Angeles mega-mansions, Michael Gross let the Post into his own personal abode. Naturally, the Alwyn Court apartment is prewar, and has

The Mod Squad: Will Bruce Ratner Transform the Way New York Builds, or Is Prefab Another Project Too Far?

For nine years now, Bruce Ratner has talked of transforming Brooklyn with his Atlantic Yards project. Bringing professional sports back to the borough, creating a new skyline, “a neighborhood practically from scratch,”

The Fringe Suburb Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Not Breathing

It seems like progressive urbanism is starting to sell papers. Two pieces on suburban sprawl, that ever creeping bogey man facing every urban planner under 50, have graced the front pages of

Architect of the Housing Bubble, Barney Frank, Bows Out

Whenever members of Congress retire, there tends to be an atmosphere of goodwill towards them as if the damage they’ve done to the economy and the country has come to an end.

Is the condominium boom in Metro Manila a sign of a healthy Philippine economy?

September of last year, I wrote about what I perceived as a condominium boom in Metro Manila. For several weeks, I perused the newspapers and listed down the condominiums that were being advertised.

October 2011 Market Update… a Tale of Declining Inventory

With pending sales up and new listings down over the course of the last twelve months it should come as no surprise that the supply of homes for sale is down. In