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Interesting Real Estate Trends for 2016

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15 Dec

The 37th Emerging Trends in Real Estate® published by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) provides an in depth analysis of trends in real estate investments, development, finance, and issues across U.S.A. and Canada. Participants of the survey include private property owners or developers, real estate firms, investment managers, banks, and brokerages to provide information from different realms of the housing continuum. We focus on two aspects, the rising popularity of the suburbs and agriculture in the big cities.

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The Effect of Women on Boards

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14 Dec

Here’s a fact: diverse boardrooms and executive offices return higher revenues and depict increased innovative thinking when compared to firms lacking diversity. A recent report from MSCI ESG Research surveying 4,218 companies around the world found that those with numerous female executives and board members represented a Return of Equity of 10.1 percent a year compared to 7.4 percent for companies without significant female leadership. Continue reading →

My Journey at NAWRB

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10 Dec

From the desk of Shideh Balali,

My name is Shideh Balali and I am responsible for Strategic Development at NAWRB.

I started with NAWRB in October 2015 as the Member Relations Coordinator. The relationships I have gained and the enterprising women I have spoken with have been phenomenal. An organization like NAWRB unites women from different backgrounds in the housing continuum that share the same drive, ambition and perseverance. It is rare to find an organization that is prompted by their members’ welfare rather than monetary gain. Continue reading →

The Power of Asian Women Entrepreneurs

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09 Dec

A recent international study conducted by Scorpio Partnership for HSBC Private Bank examined 2,834 entrepreneurs who are actively involved in business and are worth at least one million American dollars, with the average worth of survey participants being $4.6 million. The nations covered in the study are mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the U.K., Germany, France, Switzerland, U.S., United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

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2016 Housing Market Outlook

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08 Dec

There is yet another list predicting the busiest housing markets of the coming year, this time from Trulia in the form of their 2016 Housing Market Outlook. As most predictive reports, Trulia’s identifies a mixture of positive and negative trends in the coming year. In regards to their top 10 growing markets, the Trulia report doesn’t coincide with realtor.com’s 2016 Housing Forecast on any cities, and shares only Austin, Texas with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2016. Continue reading →

Emerging 2016 Housing Markets

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03 Dec

In October, we wrote about a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), which predicted the hottest real estate markets of 2016—the study’s focal assertion was that the New Year would be the time of secondary and tertiary markets. Yesterday, realtor.com released their 2016 Housing Forecast providing an overview of the coming housing market and a list of the top 10 cities for home buying activity. Continue reading →