Cornell Real Estate Review

• Treasure Island – San Francisco’s Green Response to the City’s Housing Crisis April 25, 2018
  For most of the 20th century, Treasure Island sat quietly on the San Francisco Bay despite its prominent location. Nestled between downtown San Francisco and Oakland, the man-made, 405-acre island is now home to one of the country’s largest redevelopment projects. Essentially the entire island, along with parts of neighboring Yerba Buena Island will be completely […]
  Jimin Won
• Are Farmland Values Ripe For A New Season? (7 mins) April 24, 2018
  How trends in the U.S. Agriculture industry can affect farm related real estate. Similar to periods before deleveraging and bust periods in agricultural environments, today’s low interest rates and high farm land values are encouraging farmers to incur significant amounts of debt while national net farm income continues to decrease, and U.S. interest rates continue […]
  Christopher Trahan
• The dilemma of foreign capital chasing residential real estate in Vancouver and other gateway markets (8 mins) April 23, 2018
  The challenge of finding a home to buy in Vancouver can hard to address. To address the housing crisis, the city recently implemented an annual tax on empty or under-utilized residential properties called the Empty Homes Tax. Properties deemed empty will be subject to a tax of 1% of the property’s assessed taxable value.[1] This […]
  Tiya Jain
• Harvard’s Natural Resources Empire (7 min) April 20, 2018
    With $36.4 billion, Harvard has by far the largest university endowment in the world.[1] While the endowment is vast, it is surprising to hear that the school has had a very disappointing 4.4% average annual return the past 10 years[2]. This would not even beat the 6.4% one would have earned in the same […]
  Sean Mashian
• Chinese Looks to Assert Presence in the Middle East with Oman Industrial City (6 mins) April 19, 2018
  Inside the Gulf – Part 3 – This series of articles will explore several major projects taking place in the Persian Gulf countries. As the United States takes more of an “America First” approach towards foreign policy, China is looking to step in to the potential void left by the US as the dominant world […]
  Ali Daye