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Economic Development in America

Coaching Tip

According to Census Bureau data from 2013, about 4.8 By information more accessible, the Internet has improved the quality of any given move. Source: INERTIA NATION, New York Times Magazine, December 15, 2013. million Americans moved across state lines in the previous year. That is down from 5.76 million in 2006 and 7.5

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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. Name and address information required. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I’m an independent commercial real estate lender and commercial real estate mortgage broker. ” All the people you’re talking to in the real estate business only want to get a deal done. Name and address information required. Don’t tell me what you’ve got.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

Strategy Driven

With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. Name and address information required. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank.

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Selling Suburbia to Millennials

Strategy Driven

Millennial homebuyers aren’t the traditional real estate clients. The latest information from the National Association of Realtors has millennials looking to get away from high urban rent rates and more toward the suburbs to find the perfect single-family home. Moving into Hipsturbia. The Expanding Trend.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Asset owners and investors thus have clear information about the strong incentive to adapt to this emerging risk.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. Thus, the asset managers are more comfortable with hedge funds, real estate holdings, and trading strategies than in market opportunities in education.