The Promise of AI

Is artificial intelligence an industry game changer or a wizard behind a curtain?

Larger investors influence the single-family rental sector

The single-family rental (SFR) housing market was once a relatively niche sector of commercial real estate that was typically reserved for small-scale investors. Today, however, it is increasingly emerging as a power player in the landscape for institutional owners of residential properties. While single-family homes historically were the exclusive purview of owner-occupants with the goal […]

International Investments: Switzerland

Switzerland — the Alpine European country of luxury watches and hefty offshore bank accounts — has a lofty reputation when it comes to its engagement in international finance. Indeed, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Swiss-based companies have historically been active in exporting funds in the form of overseas direct investment. The famously neutral nation is, […]

Dollar stores are helping to revitalize strip malls

In the risky world of retail development, there are preciously few sure things. But for more than a decade, one portion of this asset class that has performed well is the once overlooked strip mall. JPMorgan Chase, for instance, didn’t mince words in a commercial real estate report about the success of strip malls that […]

Artificial intelligence should be respected but not feared

Cars pull up at a drive-through restaurant and food orders are given to a computer that can understand human speech. A small flying machine sweeps over crowded city streets to deliver a package. A college student turns in an essay that was written by an invisible robot. Science fiction pioneers H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and […]