Commercial Real Estate Research Roundup – Outlook 2020

Commercial Real Estate Research

We maintain a comprehensive list of commercial and multifamily real estate research for investment and development. This is our Commercial Real Estate Research Roundup related to those real estate research reports released at the end of 2019 and during Q1 2020 that can help you understand overall trends in the real estate industry and the…

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New Tax Benefits are a Hot Topic, but Questions Remain

Opportunity Zones and Real Estate Offer Significant Tax Benefits through Incentives

New tax incentives could catalyze billions of dollars in development and investment in 8,700 federally designated Opportunity Zones across the U.S. The question, observers say, is how the program will actually work: While some investors and developers are forging ahead with projects in these low-income areas, others aim to wait until regulators clarify the rules.

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Qualified Opportunity Funds: The Real Estate Industry Weighs In

Real Estate Industry Submits Opportunity Zone Comments to Treasury and IRS - CREModels.com

While the government shutdown is holding up the public hearing, we feel it may be instructive to continue to dig into the comment letters submitted on the proposed Qualified Opportunity Zone legislation. One early takeaway was that several real estate industry groups submitted letters, and we wanted to summarize the comments made by those groups…

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Interactive Opportunity Zone Map with MSAs

Opportunity Zones in Top MSAs [Interactive Map]

This is the latest addition to our library of Qualified Opportunity Zone Maps. This map shows the Qualified Opportunity Zones which touch Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) having a population of over 500,000 people. Boundaries showing MSAs with population over 500,000, showing: Population (2010 Census and 2017 Estimate) Change in Resident Population Births and Deaths Net…

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Opportunity Zones, Student Housing – Interactive Map

Opportunity Zones for Student Housing

Specific asset classes have the potential to benefit from Opportunity Zones, Student Housing is one of the first that come up. This is because college towns tend to have high-density populations of students who are intentionally unemployed while attending school full-time. In many cases, these colleges are expensive to attend and the student population is…

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Tampa Opportunity Zones – Interactive Map

Qualified Opportunity Zones - Interactive Map - Tampa Bay

Use our Interactive Opportunity Zone Map to evaluate opportunities and perform site selection in Qualified Opportunity Zones in the Tampa Bay Area. The box in the upper-right corner of the map allows you to quickly enter an address to see if it falls within a Census Tract which is a Tampa Opportunity Zone. We have…

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Interactive Opportunity Zone Map

Opportunity Zone Map

Use our Interactive Opportunity Zone Map to evaluate opportunities and perform site selection in Qualified Opportunity Zones. LATEST UPDATES: We now have a separate map that shows the major MSAs and the Qualified Opportunity Zones located therein Added direct links to Census Bureau for each Opportunity Zone Census Tract showing: Household Income Population Color-coded Qualified…

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Qualified Opportunity Zone Resource Center for Real Estate Developers

Welcome to our Real Estate Developer Resource Center for investing and developing inside Qualified Opportunity Zones. Below the map are resources curated for the use of real estate investors and developers including official sources, downloadable documents, other portals/hubs, recent news, and discussion threads. We have marked potentially negative coverage (from the perspective of investors and…

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Real Estate Funds Break Records in Q1 2017

Real Estate Funds Break Records in Q1 2017

Private real estate funds keep multiplying with 554 funds in the market at the beginning of Q2 2017 competing for a total capital commitment of $189 billion, according to Preqin’s quarterly real estate update released in April. This represents a 13% increase in the number of funds raising from one year ago and a 24%…

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