MBA Tackles GSE Reform, Waiting for Congress

Last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released a white paper titled: GSE Reform: Creating a Sustainable, More Vibrant, Secondary Mortgage Market, which laid out the association’s vision for a reformed and revitalized Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and secondary...

E-Commerce Activity Gives Industrial a Boost

A few weeks ago, I attended the RealShare Industrial conference in Dallas. Commercial real estate professionals got to find out during the various panel discussions why the industrial sector is doing so well as of late. One of the biggest drivers in the space right...

Seismic Assessments: What you need to know…

The American Society of the International Association for Testing and Materials (ATSM) recently released new standards relating to commercial real estate. As is the case with every new ASTM update, a lot of people in the industry are wondering what the pluses and...

Conference Report: CREJ Multifamily, Denver

GRS Group recently exhibited at the Colorado Real Estate Journals Multifamily event held at the Inverness Hotel and Conference Center just outside Denver.   With Denver, and Colorado more regionally, being such a hot spot for multifamily investment and development,...