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Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): Understanding the Construction Connection

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It allows real estate market investments without directly purchasing and managing properties. Equity REITs own and operate income-generating real estate properties, while mortgage REITs invest in mortgages and other real estate debt instruments. Evaluate the Management Team The management team of a REIT is crucial to its success.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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MANAGEMENT |. General Management. People Management. Green Building. Equipment Management. It’s this kind of business management advice that separates CBO from other construction publications that solely evaluate and discuss equipment. Better Project Management through Better Communication.

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Black Gold Rush

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The housing market collapse devastated the Golden State at the same time it faced a fiscal reckoning brought on by decades of piling up long-term debt. Last year, a State Budget Crisis Task Force headed by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker estimated California’s long-term debt at a staggering $370 billion.

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Wyoming Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Loan terms are determined by the economic benefit to the state and the financial capacity of the business to service the debt. Managed Data Center Cost Reduction Grant Program (Passed 2009): It is a $2.25 Through this program, qualified businesses can obtain capital in the form of debt or equity financing.

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All the Way Back

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In the beginning of April, the United States–after five agonizing years of triage on a severely wounded economy that sputtered, in fits and starts (and full stops, thanks to a destructive political stalemate in Congress), and eventually staggered to its feet–has managed to recover all of the jobs lost during the Great Recession.

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John Green’s Plan to Eliminate Predatory Lending Practices

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It’s a problem that John Green, managing principal of Blackstar Stability , wants to address with a comprehensive business model that puts at-risk Americans on a path to homeownership and financial stability.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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But addressing the future needs of housing affordability—namely, expanding its product mix and pool of buyers, retooling its well-known, long-standing brand, and managing NIMBYism against its vision—would not happen overnight. “I knew we couldn’t be the same builder we’d always been.”. Photo: Erik Ostling / dbphotoagency.