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International award-winning firm KTGY Architecture + Planning recently hosted an invite-only event for John Burns Real Estate Consulting (JBREC) Principal Mollie Carmichael and Senior Vice President Dan Fulton. Carmichael and Fulton presented findings from JBREC's survey of over 21,000 home shoppers nationally, and JBREC's housing market outlook for the Washington, DC region and beyond. Rohit Anand, AIA, managing principal of KTGY’s East Coast office, offered his comments as well.

On Wednesday, July 13 at 10:00 am EST, Investors Unite Executive Director Tim Pagliara will host a teleconference to brief Investors Unite members and members of the media on key findings from a recent opinion survey on housing in America.

A new video from Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) tells the story of the Murr family, who have fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop bureaucrats from robbing them of a family legacy — a vacant parcel along the St. Croix River in Wisconsin that their late parents purchased in the early 1960s as a family investment.

On Wednesday, June 29, 2016, the County of Monterey celebrated the grand opening of Camphora Apartments, a development by Eden Housing and South County Housing, in partnership with the County and the City of Soledad. Camphora Apartments is located at 32101 McCoy Road, Soledad, CA 93960

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Advance Auto Parts property located at 1200 West Chicago Avenue in East Chicago, Indiana for $1,530,000. East Chicago is a suburb of Chicago located in Northwest Indiana.

Award-winning international firm KTGY Architecture + Planning announced today that the City of Fremont recently celebrated the groundbreaking of Locale @ State Street, Downtown Fremont’s first mixed-use project. The new transit-oriented residential and retail development, designed by KTGY, was made possible through a public/private partnership between the City of Fremont, TMG Partners, SARES-REGIS Group, and Summerhill Homes.

In a speech at the National Press Club, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) called for the development of policies that promote and accelerate energy efficiency and smart buildings, in light of new research demonstrating the energy savings that come from investing in energy efficiency technologies

The National Real Estate Investors Association (NREIA) announced this week that three of its chapters received an “Award of Excellence” at their annual MidYear meeting, which took place last weekend in Atlanta, GA.  Awards were given for outstanding efforts in six major categories (Government Affairs, Community Service, Communications, Membership, Education and Strategic Industry Partners Marketing.  Three chapters (one from each size group; Small, Medium and Large) received an award.

With the near completion of 200 new, affordable housing homes, the $46 million Charlotte Park Apartments in San Jose, Calif., is a great example of ROEM’s expertise in building a high quality affordable residential rental community located within a market-rate development. In this case, ROEM Corp. satisfied most of the affordable housing requirement of the Hitachi master-planned community, with ROEM Builders, Inc., acting as both general contractor and construction manager

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Walgreens property located at 1855 Hudson Bridge Road in Stockbridge, Georgia for $5,020,000.

LBG REAL ESTATE COMPANIES, LLC (LBG), a Southern California-based investor in retail real estate, in partnership with Aviva Investors Real Estate Capital Partners I-A, LP, announce that they have completed the sale of a prime, single-tenant net-lease property in Henderson NV to an undisclosed buyer at a sale price of $23,162,717. The sale of the property was brokered by Chris Kostanecki and Dave Lucas of Capital Pacific in Las Vegas, NV

International award-winning firm KTGY Architecture + Planning recently held an invite-only KTGY Leadership Series event with real estate experts Doug Bibby, president of National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), and John McManus, editorial director of Hanley Wood, with Rohit Anand, AIA, managing principal of KTGY’s East Coast office, as the moderator. The event, which was held at KTGY’s new offices at 8609 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 600, Tysons, VA 22182, was attended by some of the region’s top builders and developers.

The real estate market can best be described as the land of opportunity. Unfortunately, it’s often feast or famine for anyone who decides to invest in it. When the market is down, there aren’t that many opportunities, but these opportunities become far more plentiful for everyone involved each time there’s an upswing in market activity

Mercy Loan Fund (MLF), a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) based in Denver, Colo., announced that it has reached a historic milestone: $2 billion leveraged in development costs.

International award-winning firm KTGY Architecture + Planning today unveiled the design for Vintage Real Estate’s retailer expansion at SouthBay Pavilion, a 1.2 million-square-foot enclosed shopping center in Carson, California.

CBRE Executive Vice President Philip D. Voorhees and Jimmy Slusher announced today that the National Retail Investment Group – West (NRIG-West) team completed the sale of The Terrace, a two-level, 39,634-square-foot shopping center with structured parking in the city of Newbury Park, Calif. Leased to a complementary mix of 12 restaurant, retail and athletic-focused uses, tenants at The Terrace include: Orangetheory Fitness, Hot Yoga 1000, Road Runner Sports, Bottle and Pint, and others.

Representative Derek Kilmer (D-WA) announced that the US Forest Service will receive future federal funding to make Staircase Road, a key access point in Mason County to Lake Cushman and Olympic National Park, more safe and reliable for homeowners and visitors. The Federal Highway Administration has approved an award to the US Forest Service (USFS) of up to $2.5 million to make long-term improvements to Staircase Road under the Federal Lands Transportation Program