In one of the Washington metropolitan area’s largest industrial portfolio acquisitions this year, a partnership led by Willco Companies of Potomac, MD has acquired approximately 285,000 square feet of flex-industrial space at Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, MD for $30 million. The…

As we head for the CoreNet Global Summit in San Diego April 29 - May 1, there will be a lot of attention on a whole new set of predictions about the future of corporate…

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f all goes as planned City Council will again be briefed on April 26 and on May 24, whish is the date for the City Hall public hearing.This is hardly the first time Austin has set out to construct some sort of blueprint for its growth. Despite plans that have come and gone — clearly forgotten — there appears to be a heightened sense of urgency this time. 

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Philadelphia, PA, April 4, 2012 - Grosvenor Fund Management (GFM) has appointed Charles “Chip” Walters Managing Director and Head of Fund Portfolio Management in the Philadelphia, PA office. He will be responsible for the development and management of a perpetual life investment vehicle focusing on real estate.

Mr. Walters joins GFM from Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI), where he has worked since 1992, most recently as Principal, Head of the Northeast Acquisition Team. In 2011,…

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Grosvenor Asia Pacific Limited, a proprietary arm of the privately-owned property group Grosvenor, has acquired two luxury apartment complexes in Tokyo, Japan with a total of 110 units.

“Roppongi Arents,” acquired by Grosvenor in a joint venture with two Hong Kong private investors and a sovereign wealth fund, is a 99-unit luxury apartment building completed in July 2003. The 15-story building is located adjacent to Roppongi Hills, a 27-acre new urban community blending office space,…

How real estate strategies are quickly becoming business strategies

CoreNet Global’s new 2012 State of the Industry Report takes a sweeping view of corporate real estate (CRE) in a redefined world.

The report, set for release to 7,000 CoreNet Global members worldwide on March 28, captures many of the diverse, assorted, wide-ranging, often-conflicting and extensive factors shaping tomorrow’s global business…

Urban Investment Partners (UIP) of Washington, D.C. has appointed Valerie Cseplo-Jeffrey Vice President of Asset Management and Reporting. In this new position, she is responsible for overseeing the operational efficiency and long-term financial planning and management of assets owned and/or managed by UIP.

Ms. Cseplo-Jeffrey joins UIP from The Bozzuto Group of Greenbelt, MD, where she worked for eight years in new business development as well as asset and property management. She…

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Two months into 2012, and it is still difficult to see what kind of year real estate investors  can expect. General sentiment may be improving. A recent quarterly pulse survey of investors conducted by the National Association…

ULI Washington Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will keynote ULI Washington’s 15th annual Washington Real Estate Trends conference to be held April 17, 2012 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center , 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,…

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I’m pleased to invite you to attend the MIPIM panel at which we will be speaking about real estate investment risks. (See details below).

This coincides with the launch of Secure Legal Title Ltd, a new provider of Title Insurance and Legal Indemnities services, that my partners Sean Dalton, Joel Peck and I have established in London. Our Senior Underwriter is Geoffrey Lynch.

Secure Legal Title will offer…

Grosvenor Fund Management (GFM) has appointed William P. Donohue, Jr. to serve as Managing Director and Head of Asset Management in the Philadelphia, PA office. He will be responsible for U.S. real estate assets managed by GFM, with a focus on GFM fund products.

Mr. Donohue has 22 years of experience in real estate acquisitions, asset management, property management, and complex restructurings. He has held positions with Building and Land Technology, Cheswold…

Despite the still-shaky economic recovery, two local entrepreneurs have fulfilled their dreams of opening their own small shops – a Fairfax, VA boutique and a Bethesda, MD juice bar – with the help of Streetsense, which provides integrated brokerage, design, branding, and development services for retail and real estate services.

Puree Artisan Juice Bar™, which opened in Bethesda just in time for locals to keep their new year’s resolutions, provided Streetsense with an opportunity…

Urban Investment Partners (UIP) won a “Plexy” award from Washington City Paper for a noteworthy achievement in the D.C. real estate scene during 2011 – specifically for “craziest buying spree.”

According to City Paper, “the recession sent a lot of D.C. apartment buildings into foreclosure, even though rental demand here is the strongest in the country. Steve Schwat, of Urban Investment Partners, has been capitalizing on that, picking up building after building cheaply and either…

This past April Raul Castro presided over the 6th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. Originally these planning events were scheduled to be held every five years, but the Castros either lost count or lost interest in engaging the Cuban people and a while ago fell several five year periods behind. Anyway…

The simple holding of this event was reported on by many media outlets as a sign of the Castros looking to reform what is a staggeringly bad economy.

But as I have often…

The architecture and design team at Bethesda, MD-based Streetsense has created an all-new interior design scheme for La Madeleine French Country Cafe, a national chain of French-themed fast casual restaurants. A 1,194 square foot restaurant using the new prototype design is now open at Northpark Center in Dallas, TX, while another is under construction in Tulsa, OK. La Madeleine also has engaged Streetsense to design two new stores planned for the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region, one in…

Urban Investment Partners (UIP) has closed on its sixth acquisition of 2011 with the purchase of 1346 Park Road NW in Columbia Heights.  An entity controlled by Someck Development and Northridge Capital sold the property to UIP for $3.7 million.

MAC Realty Advisors' Andrew McAllister represented the seller of 1346 Park Road NW. "This transaction showcases UIP's continued momentum in the urban space," said McAllister, who represented this same seller in the sale of 1349 Kenyon Street,…