Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. is pleased to launch our spring webinar series. This series offers new and updated webinars that discuss commercial real estate trends, standards updates and changes as they affect the commercial real estate industry. Registration for all webinars is at no cost to industry professionals. Webinar Topics Include: The Essentials of Seismic Risk Assessments Why ... Read More »
Commercial Real Estate Due Diligence Underwriters, analysts, and loan officers who want to deepen their knowledge of Commercial Real Estate Due Diligence are well served to learn a little about each type of third party report that is needed to underwrite a commercial real estate transaction. Five of the most commonly required commercial real estate due diligence reports are Phase I Environme... Read More »
It’s been a full month since this year’s MBA CREF conference and time to look back at the conference happenings. During the 2013 MBA CREF conference that took place from February 2 through February 6, the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) presented their State of the State breakfast. This year, Mary K. Ludgin, Ph.D., Managing Director, and Director of Global Investment R... Read More »
The benefits of green building and energy efficiency are real and increasingly want to be realized by commercial real estate investors and tenants alike. Partner Engineering and Science, Inc.’s green retrofit of their new company headquarters in Los Angeles provided Partner with firsthand experience in realizing those benefits. By undertaking this project, Partner is now able to provide inva... Read More »
Environmental and engineering due diligence in relation to real estate transactions often poses questions about how, when and why. As an industry leader in providing assessments, Partner had taken to task to also be industry leaders in educating the real estate industry on the When of ordering a report, the Whys, the Hows, and the effects of the report once received. After publishing three videos ... Read More »
What type of environmental due diligence should you do prior to taking title to real estate that is given to you? Is doing a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment a bit like looking a gift horse in the mouth? A Connecticut woman recently inherited a commercial property that had formerly been a gas station and, as reported by environmental lawyer Larry Schnapf, she is being held responsible for... Read More »
I noticed in EDR ScoreKeeper’s Q1 2011 and Q2 2011 report that big consulting firms are growing at a larger rate than small firms. Apparently lenders and real estate investors are increasingly choosing larger firms for their Phase I Environmental Site Assessments. I spoke with two national lenders who said that they were trying to narrow their list and cutting the mom and pops in favor of ... Read More »
For lenders, conducting the appropriate level of pre-foreclosure environmental due diligence is crucial to managing the risk of lender-owned real estate portfolios. Though the economy is on a tenuous path to recovery, commercial real estate foreclosures persist. Lenders may be dealing with foreclosure backlogs for years to come. Partner’s Amy Rudegeair co-authored an award-winning article ad... Read More »
