on Cornell’s Baker Program in Real Estate was honored to have Martin Stern of CBRE as a featured guest in its Distinguished Speaker Series on November 9, 2017. A Cornell alumnus (ENG ’68), Martin Stern serves as the Senior Managing Director of CBRE Chicago’s the Real Estate Advisory Services Group as he utilizes his background in… Continue Reading DSS Wrap Up: Martin Stern, CBRE Senior Managing Director
on The second in a series of articles on how changes in port infrastructure and development can impact industrial real estate. To read the previous article in this series, Government Officials’ Shortsighted Port Investment Hampers Industrial Market, please click here. In the age of globalization, the potential impact that rural river ports and intermodal connectivity have… Continue Reading Rural River Ports Must Adapt To Stay Competitive
on Photo Credit: Jimin Won Cornell’s Baker Program in Real Estate was proud to welcome back John Cokinos (Cornell ’95) to our Distinguished Speaker Series on October 26. Mr. Cokinos has led the Royal Bank of Canada’s leveraged loan capital market team since March 2014 as managing director. Prior to RBC he was head of leveraged… Continue Reading DSS Wrap Up: John Cokinos of RBC Capital Markets
on Shanghai’s Pudong Skyline. The city will be the 2018 international real estate case trek destination for students of the Baker Program. Photo Credit: Commons Shanghai is often observed as a benchmark for China’s consumer and retail trends. In 2017, Shanghai’s population exceeded 25 million people, a staggering record even for the largest city in the… Continue Reading Shanghai’s Retail Space: Too Much of a Good Thing
on At a lodging conference in December 2016, Laura Paugh, Marriott International’s SVP of Investor Relations, remarked that Airbnb hasn’t “[made] headway in the corporate environment, which is really [Marriott’s] bread-and-butter business.”[i] This statement is reflective of the hospitality industry’s general stance on Airbnb: the platform hasn’t yet made a material impact because Airbnb does not… Continue Reading Is PUBLIC Hotel the Answer to Airbnb?
on At the Cornell Real Estate Conference in New York City on October 13th 2017, the findings of the 5th annual global real estate Allocations Monitor were presented by the Co-Founder of Hodes Weill & Associates, Doug Weill. The Allocations Monitor has been serving institutional investors, asset managers and industry professionals in the real estate industry… Continue Reading Baker Program and Hodes Weill & Associates Present 5th Annual Institutional Real Estate Allocations Monitor Report
on On Tuesday of last week, to a packed audience at a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman announced the conception of a new mega city to be built in Saudi Arabia. Neom, which means “New Future” is an ambitious attempt by the Kingdom to propel itself upon the world stage by creating… Continue Reading With a Price Tag of $500 Billion, Saudi Arabia Plans World’s Most Ambitious Mega-City
on Some called it the “world’s most important number” and by the end of 2021 it will no longer be published, according to the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority. The absence of the now infamous LIBOR benchmark may force market participants to rethink credit calculations, standardized benchmarks, lease contracts, and financial reference calculations such as the “risk-free… Continue Reading LIBOR: The World’s Most Important Number is Going Away, What’s Next?
on It has been just over a month since Amazon announced that it would be building a second corporate headquarters. Since that announcement, the industry has been abuzz as to what lucky city will earn the right to host the new headquarters and what incentives they would have to provide in order to woo the tech… Continue Reading Amazon’s HQ2 Underscores the Need for Integrative Workplaces
on The Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate had the distinct privilege of hosting Sylvia Melikian for the Thursday, October 19th installment of the Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS). Ms. Melikian is a 1986 graduate of the Johnson School of Business. She is currently a Principal at MacFarlane Partners where she is responsible for overseeing the real… Continue Reading DSS Wrap Up: Sylvia Melikian of MacFarlane Partners