For my fellow bloggers in this column—and most certainly for its loyal readers—when I write that Dallas is “a real estate town,” everyone knows what I’m talking about. and everyone will agree with me. Given the ready access to both superb human real estate capital and robust real estate economic drivers, the timing was perfect for last week’s announcement concerning Southern Methodist University’s initiative to create a world class institute in real estate education, research, and leadership.
Real Points
Daily Reports on Commercial Real Estate
Articles by Chuck Dannis
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Law-GovernmentFor the first time in a long time, I spent almost all of last Thursday afternoon sitting through a City of Dallas Planning Commission meeting. Although there was, as usual, many planning and zoning issues on the agenda, the council chambers were packed that day for one important item: the proposed rezoning of a 2+ acre parcel at the southwest corner of Walnut Hill Lane and Inwood Road.
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Dec. 9 marked the 43rd running of the Dallas Marathon—known for the preceding 42 years as the Dallas White Rock Marathon. Billed as the city’s largest single-day sporting spectator event, the Dallas Marathon is a big-city, big-time, community-wide event. Here are 10 facts about the event that you may find of interest.
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EconomyDFW is currently the fourth-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States. We are leading the country in commercial real estate activity, based upon net absorption of space—a common measure of success.
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LandLike a lot of people in my generation, I have over the years become sort of a pack rat, especially when it comes to old market data—specifically real estate data from here in the Dallas area. I’m not sure it will ever be of any real commercial use, except for maybe in a blog like this.
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About nine years ago, I was privileged to be appointed to then-Mayor Laura Miller’s City of Dallas’ Real Estate Task Force. It was a group of seven real estate professionals who were part of a non-official adjunct to the City’s Department of Development Services (Real Estate.) This diverse group of experienced real estate executives were charged with a fairly simple mission statement by Mayor Miller: help the City whenever and wherever we could with any related real estate decisions it may need.
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ResidentialOver the years I have given countless presentations to various residential brokers, mortgage bankers, and general real estate audiences. At the conclusion of my presentations, I try to leave each group with a lighthearted, somewhat personalized takeaway on the state of the market. What I’ve devised I casually refer to as “Chuck’s Lil’ HOTI.”
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As the 2012 season gets under way, I thought I would borrow a little wit from one of baseball’s wisest, most-quoted pundits—Yogi Berra—and apply it, with a large dose of self-dealing editorial freedom, to our world today.
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In 2010, North Texas had a combined real estate investment total of $10.6 billion: for 2011, that total topped $12.3 billion—an increase of about $1.7 billion, or 15.5 percent. Granted, some of that increase comes from a healthy appreciation in the value of the existing assets in the index; the balance, however, comes directly from increased investor activity.
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In economic terms, real estate—the asset class—is a little “sticky.” Trends are slow to be recognized, so it’s difficult to immediately spot any material turns, stops or starts. But just this week, detailed research data on the institutional real estate market was released, and there was nothing sticky about that data: Real estate is back.
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