Emery Matthews BIO

Emery Matthews BIO

Experienced real estate consultant, scholar and visionary, Emery Matthews founded and serves as the principal of…

Advising Decision Makers, International Real Estate,

Requiem for the Trans Pacific Partnership (from the late but not forgotten file)

Some may recall when these pages boasted of the inevitability of the ratification of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). We called it such because it cost the US relatively little,…

Best of, Real Estate Trends,

The Best Five Blocks in Detroit

If you live in Detroit, or even glanced at any random issue of the New York Times in the last five years, chances are good that you’ve heard of the…

Advising Decision Makers, Managing Change, Operations, Real Estate Trends,

What do high profile repudiations of REITs tell us about the future of the structure?

The decisions made by Macy’s/McDonald’s to reject REIT spin-offs are neither anomaly nor representative of a fundamental shift. In fact, their decisions have little to do with REITs or the…

Advising Decision Makers, International Real Estate, Operations, Trade,

Manufacturers Take Note: Is Your Real Estate TPP-Ready?

The debate over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has brought into sharp focus the tension between established industrialized nations like the US seeking to establish cross border standards/protections and emerging…

Advising Decision Makers, International Real Estate, Trade,

Repeat After Me: TTIP is Happening – And That’s Good.

Don’t believe the hype. TTIP WILL happen, and it means potentially great things for trans-Atlantic real estate owners and occupiers. TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the US and…