Century 21 Executive Summary

The case study titled “Holt Lunsford Commercial” explains how Holt Lunsford is debating how to grow his Dallas-based commercial real estate services firm and how to advise a long-time client who is wondering whether to lease or buy an industrial warehouse. The case focuses on the highly competitive and increasingly institutionalized $50 billion real estate services industry, which encompasses property management, leasing, tenant representation, and other activities. What makes Lunsford's firm, The Holt Companies, special? The article explores what corporate strategy Lunsford should choose for his firm, and what recommendation he should make to his client.

Foxtons Group is an estate agency that offers residential property lettings and sales services based in London. The company was founded in 1981. The company had a revolutionary offers of 0% commission and longer opening hours 9am to 9pm that makes Foxtons successfully open other offices in the following years and be the leading yet biggest London estate agency today. Now it has network of 51 branches. Foxtons have established themselves as a highly innovative business over the years, challenging the tradition of property markets. (Foxtons Group, n.d.)

This paper is written to provide a reasonably comprehensive overview of Section 1031 of the IRC as it pertains to real estate transactions, and to offer some thoughts on the wealth-creation advantages that 1031 Exchanges offer.

Though there has been growth in the luxury market, customers are increasingly identifying with other strong hotel brands. In addition, the market is getting more crowded. In 1996 Rosewood and its key competitors had 165 properties combined. Today that number has almost doubled to 310, with 120% growth specifically

The represented firm is Allied Properties REIT, an unincorporated real estate investment trust located in Downtown Toronto. Allied is a publicly traded company listed in the Toronto Stock Exchange under “AP.UN”. It mainly operates in Canada’s largest metropolitan areas, particularly in Toronto and Montreal, where they own over 4 million square feet in gross leasable area in each city.

eventually acquired by Warren Buffet through a series of stock purchases. In was in 1996 that Warren

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This is a bad thing because not only is they’re no security but this causes for the company to pay more in overhead expenses. Also the rent they are paying has the possibility to be increased each year. There is a positive to Rue 21 not owning their real estate, which is if the location is not doing so well the have a clause in the lease where they can back out of the contract if projected sales are not met (Berman, 2009). To help reduce the risk of the real estate strategy it would be in Rue 21’s best interest if they increase the amount of stores they open in malls to help share the consumer base as target since they are in a lot of malls and have the same consumer base. In doing this it will help Rue 21 pick locations that give them more exposure with less risk or loss of

Merrill Lynch posses the share of the relocation services market. In arrangement with their vision of growth and diversification, CMI sees an importance in entering the relocation services market. Entry could round out their whole service offering and allow them to better compete with Merrill Lynch. Thus the CMI idea to create a “residential real estate financial services company” (Lewicki 576) was born.

Within its franchising system, the company provides retailing strategy and marketing techniques in turn for receiving the franchisees fees that are based on sales. Harvey Norman is said to be ‘part retailer, part property-trust’ as the company property holdings account for nearly 50 percent of its total assets (Money manager, 2008). These assets also produce main source of income for the company including regular rental income from the franchisees, and also acting as an investment income where it can successfully develop properties from vacant land to retail complexes. The major benefits of this integrated model enable Harvey Norman to lower the cost of debt financing by securitizing a portion of income-producing property portfolio. This would free up capital and helps to boost returns.

This paper will seek to provide an overview of the real estate process and its affects on the real estate agent. An agent needs to be knowledgable about the steps required to make a sale, and the risks involved when the sale does not go as planned. Real estate sales require much of the agent, including sacrifices in their personal lives and in their financial stability. Agents must be teachable and willing to seek to see others succeed. A successful real estate sale consists of many steps, sacrifices to personal time, and an agent’s ability to work well with others while remaining incredibly flexible.

Princeton International Properties is a property management investment company that was founded in 1982 as a family-owned business. Its main office is located in 232 Madison Avenue in New York City. Princeton International Properties has been managing interests in all types of income-producing properties including commercial office buildings, residential apartment buildings, retail properties, medical centers and a hotel. Princeton International Properties owns and manages a total of nine properties at this moment bringing an unusual depth and span of business and financial experience to the Company. Their multiple resources for asset growth allows the Company to stand for itself profitably in all economic aspects sustained on their ideal record tracking program and supporting both creativity and mature judgment in all types of transactional analysis and structuring.

CBPRO is a leading real estate company in Virginia, an independent franchisor of the Coldwell banker brand since 2001. CBPRO’s business focuses on residential real estate services such as selling, buying, and leasing houses; has 299 agents in 13 offices. The residential real estate industry is influenced by the ups and downs of the economy. In good times it fuels consumers confidence and spending, and in bad times consumers are cautious and not willing to invest in a house etc. CBPRO had a breaking sale of 2,848 percent in the first three years of services and during the plummet in the economy, sales flattened down to 2.5 percent, as was the case with the industry in general. (Coldwell Banker – Virginia Beach, Page 279). Due to high competition in the residential real estate industry (especially locally), coupled with fluctuating national economic conditions, and narrowly defined target customers, CBPRO faced several distinctive challenges; residential and clients lists were important to CBPRO business and to its competitors, especially the local competitors.

In 1997 CUC and HSF merged to form what is now referred to as Cendant, which included brands such as Coldwell Banker, Ramada,

Ownership is the type of affiliation when all the properties are owned privately by people or companies. Blackstone Group had private ownership of Hilton Worldwide. After 2013 Hilton Worldwide is publicly traded company and it trades on the New York Stock Exchange. But Blackstone Group is the majority stockholder in Hilton Worldwide.(Lockyer, 2007)