Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Last week the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their well-regarded annual analysis, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010. The report, which has been published for the last 30 years, aims to advise the industry "on where to invest, what...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Walk Score keeps getting better, and it was already very good. With assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation, the locational rating system has now incorporated transit service data from 40 metro regions into its service, so that its maps...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
MSN.com has become the latest news outlet to confirm that the ever-outward suburban construction boom that defined US real estate virtually unchallenged for half a century has gone bust, and perhaps not just temporarily. I've been documenting this story...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I've reported a couple of times before about Walk Score, the handy-and-getting-handier tool for calculating the convenience of a given location to typical destinations like shops, restaurants, schools, parks, libraries, and so on. The more destinations within walking distance, the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
The June 29 issue of Business Week contains a lengthy feature (really a set of features) on what we can expect in the market for US housing between now and 2012. The short-term news for homeowners and builders is pretty...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
The economics of real estate have fundamentally changed. So says Scott Polikov, writing for citiwire.net. In a very well-written column, Polikov lays out the underpinnings of what he believes to be a new real estate paradigm: “We all knew...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Apparently it does, if the company is big enough to justify the service and to influence the market. So writes Carol Lloyd, in the San Francisco Chronicle:“At a time when so many San Francisco neighborhoods are experiencing a certain sagging...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
A provacative new article in The Atlantic suggests that times are not good in the new 'burbs: At Windy Ridge, a recently built starter-home development seven miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, 81 of the community’s 132 small, vinyl-sided houses were in...continued→
