• Real Estate Investors Should Stand Firm Real estate investments will experience a great deal of short-term volatility, but real estate fundamentals are the best they have been in years. So says the 2000 forecast by Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Company. - Link to RealtyTimes.com 
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• Location, Location, Location? Not Anymore! If the Internet garners even 5 percent of retail sales across all categories, it would put tremendous pressure on "bricks-and-mortar" retailers. Last year's Internet sales were estimated at just one half of 1 percent of total retail business, but projections are for U.S. online retails to hit 7 percent of total retail sales by 2004 ($185 billion). This would constitute a quarter of all the growth in retail sales during the next five years, and much more in certain categories. - Link to Cool-Companies.org
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• E-Commerce Could Reduce Demand According to calculations by the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, current Internet business trends could reduce the demand for commercial space by up to 3 billion square feet between 1997 and 2007, along with all the lighting, heating and cooling that goes with it. That could mean an average reduction in new building construction of 300 million square feet per year - 20 percent of projected new commercial space. - Link to Cool-Companies.org
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• Is Industrial/Office Space Reaching Overkill in the USA? The tide may be turning in both the industrial and office real estate sectors, with supply outpacing demand and construction either slowing or needing to slow. - Link to RealtyTimes.com
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• The shape of things to come If your head is already spinning from the rapid pace of communications innovation, don't look now but there's a lot more coming at you. Link to ITWorld.ca
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• How Smart Is Your Office Building? Just a few years ago, most businesses' concerns with telecommunications stopped at determining which long distance plan worked best for them. But now, with connectivity being key in almost every industry, telecom has come center stage with smart and wired buildings. - Link to RealtyTimes.com
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