The lounge and kitchen area at Alexandria LaunchLabs at the Alexandria Center, One Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Mass. © 2019 Andy Caulfield With technological advancement occurring at an increasingly breakneck pace, it’s natural the number of life science and technology innovation clusters is growing as well. These clusters result from the increasing recognition that innovators
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When you take the step of owning your first rental property and becoming a landlord, you’ll likely underestimate just how many things can eat up your time and energy. On the tenant side, you can find yourself doing everything from mediating neighbor disputes to following up on late rent payments. Then there’s the property management
As the market is starting to suggest, we’re likely heading for a downturn. For the real estate industry (that only recently stopped licking its wounds from the Great Recession), this is surely a constant on all minds, especially those of us in brokerage leadership. How bad will this recession really be? I find that it’s
Silhouette of professional young businessman standing against contemporary financial skyscrapers and looking up into sky with positive emotion Getty Did you ever see the TV show Revolution? If you didn’t, don’t worry. It really wasn’t worth watching after the first two episodes. Maybe even after the first episode, for that matter. But it did have
Are you a frequent business flyer? A corporate road warrior? A military officer or diplomat shuttling regularly between D.C. and far-flung destinations? If you travel often for work, you probably have many of your trip necessities ready to go at a moment’s notice. Are they all in one convenient place to speed your departure? With
The homeownership rate of black Millennials stands at 13 percent compared with 37 percent for white Millennials. Adobe Stock For many black households, the housing crisis never ended. While 73.1 percent of white Americans owned homes as of the second quarter of 2019, a record low of 40.6 percent of black Americans had achieved homeownership
“If you build it, they will come” is often shared as a quote from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams. This quote has been used and misquoted for years — the line is really spoken, “If you build it, he will come.” The concept is simple: Think happy, positive thoughts, because if you believe in
This house has triple pane casement Casement windows by Marvin Windows and Doors.. Photo courtesy of Marvin windows It is estimated that 40 percent of the United States energy consumption is used for heating and cooling buildings as well as 75 percent of the electricity. One of our main concerns in building a house should
The importance of open communication between a property manager and the property owners they represent cannot be overstated. Transparency is paramount in our industry, where owners ought to know exactly what they’re paying for, and managers ought not to act on assumptions. I’ve commented often on the need for good communication between these parties, and
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