by Bill Sears | Feb 1, 2016 | Commercial Real Estate
When large companies want to save money on their power bills and burnish their green credibility with consumers, their big-box facilities begin to sprout solar panels. Which is why the annual Solar Means Business Report, which ranks corporate solar developers, is...
by Bill Sears | Jan 26, 2016 | Commercial Real Estate
A bubble in the apartment market? That’s what some people are saying. Undoubtedly, prices are expensive. Yet, “expensive” and “a bubble” are two different things. Read article at Multifamily Executive.
by Bill Sears | Jan 13, 2016 | Economic Development, Government
More than six years after the economic expansion began, 93% of counties in the U.S. have failed to fully recover from the blow they suffered during the recession. Nationwide, 214 counties, or 7% of 3,069, had recovered last year to prerecession levels on four...
by Bill Sears | Jan 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Aaron Renn talks about his blogging experience and the difference between developing a personal brand or a corporate brand. Read post at urbanophile.com.
by Bill Sears | Dec 29, 2015 | Agriculture, Investments
Earlier this year, while addressing a group of farmland investors at the Peoples Company’s Land Investment Expo in West Des Moines, Iowa, capital markets analyst Dennis Gartman declared that land was “the investment I’d probably stay away from.” Today, after the...