By Taylor Anderson, PE on February 27, 2010
From CNBC on February 23rd, an update on the commercial real estate market:
Moody’s Commercial Property Index showed an uptick of 4.1 percent in December. Neal Elkin, of Real Estate Analytics, and Harvey Green, of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, share their insight.
Posted in public | Tagged commercial market, economy
By Taylor Anderson, PE on October 25, 2009
The Fed’s Beige Book for the Southeast in September had the following notes on land development:
The region’s homebuilders and Realtors both reported the pace of home sales had softened slightly since August. Despite this, homebuilders noted an increase in traffic with several reporting the credit quality of potential buyers had improved as well. Demand for [...]
Posted in public | Tagged economy
By Taylor Anderson, PE on June 10, 2009
The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, which tracks anecdotal evidence in the economy in each of the Fed’s districts, had the following notes related to civil engineering and land development in District 6, the southeast:
Real Estate and Construction
Reports from Realtors indicated that existing home sales were stabilizing overall. Florida contacts noted that the steady improvement in [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 28, 2009
The amount of news on the housing front over the last week or so is staggering. If you’re keeping up with the articles I share, you’re on top of the game. (If you use an RSS reader, use this feed…) However, I wanted to add a little to the mix of articles and organize them [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, economy, real estate, residential market
By Taylor Anderson, PE on April 2, 2009
America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of attention and if there is indeed one area where government serves the people – all the people – it’s in the responsibility of providing safe, reliable and environmentally sound infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has almost failed in that duty. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, our infrastructure [...]
Posted in public | Tagged ASCE, economy, infrastructure
By Taylor Anderson, PE on February 16, 2009
As the recession takes a firm grip on Atlanta land development, what does the future look like for this once burgeoning beacon of land development? Getting out the crystal ball, also known as the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and putting a few stories together, we can start to see what’s in store.
Atlanta’s skyline will likely remain [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, barack obama, economy, industrial development, social land development
By Taylor Anderson, PE on January 31, 2009
How’s that for a title?
One amazing tool that many folks don’t know about or understand is called an RSS feed. My blog has one. My company has one. And I’ve even set one up to feed the most current news in land development, with an obvious focus on the southeast and, in particular, the southeast. [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, economy
By Taylor Anderson, PE on January 5, 2009
What is 2009 shaping up like in the residential real estate market? That’s the question that many are trying to figure out, and while nobody knows where we will be this time next year, we can look at a few things that may give us a glimpse of what it likely will be like.
First, the [...]
Posted in public | Tagged economy, real estate, residential market
By Taylor Anderson, PE on December 11, 2008
That was the headline in one of today’s AJC stories.
My reaction – no kidding.
In fact, that’s the same words used by a client earlier this year. It was quite obvious that the problems were huge. In fact, they’re bigger than huge – they may be insurmountable for a long, long time. Take a look [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on December 10, 2008
We might be in the midst of finally seeing some movement in the economy in a somewhat positive direction. These moves, which are small and almost certainly will not prevent further job losses in 2009, are, however, at least some indication that maybe the economic downturn will come to an end in 2009.
The first bit [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, barack obama, economy, real estate
