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Commercial Real Estate To See Moderate Growth In 2016

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Commercial Real Estate To See Moderate Growth In 2016 originally appeared on Business Facilities - Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. s 2016 Global Real Estate Market Outlook. s 2016 Global Real Estate Market Outlook. CBRE expects 2016 to be a year of volatile markets but steady economic growth.

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Blockchain has come to U.S. Real Estate

Green Building Law Update

I posted to this blog last year when Propy announced the very first blockchain sale anywhere, an apartment in Kiev, Ukraine in 2017. States have been actively making the necessary changes in law since 2016. so maybe not a pure blockchain transaction).

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Your ENERGY STAR Score is About to Fall Precipitously

Green Building Law Update

The change is significant for buildings pursuing LEED or Green Globes certification, for buildings with GSA or other government space leases tied to an ENERGY STAR score of 75, for buildings in cities with mandatory benchmarking, and for the more than 450,000 commercial properties that have an ENERGY STAR score. You have 75 days to act.

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PACE in Maryland is Not Keeping Pace

Green Building Law Update

However, as I wrote in this blog on July 24, 2016, HUD Jumpstarted Financing For Homes , reversing their previous position and now widely allowing residential PACE loans on top of FHA and VA loans (but still not on top of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans).

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PACE Bill Due in Baltimore City

Green Building Law Update

However, as I wrote in this blog on July 24, 2016, HUD Jumpstarted Financing For Homes , reversing their previous position and now widely allowing residential PACE loans. It is clear that in 2016 there will be more of them across Maryland including hopefully in Baltimore and ideally across America.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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Foreign Investment Drives Record U.S. Commercial Real Estate Volumes

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,400 points in just the first two weeks of 2016, but that volatility appears to be avoiding the commercial real estate industry, especially when it comes to cross-border investment in the United States, according to JLL’s U.S. Investment Outlook. Some key takeaways: $11.2