January 31, 2019. Some critics say there are now too many TIF districts, but I would suggest that we have just scratched the surface of tax increment financing's potential for good in Oklahoma.

January 24, 2019. Here’s to hoping that we in Oklahoma’s business and development community can find users and projects that execute sooner, not later, in order to fully realize the benefits of opportunity zones in our state and its cities.

January 17, 2019. The Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency is a governmental body working like it should, and a model for others.

January 10, 2019. Recently, I drove through the Paseo District and marveled at what it had become; with the area once a bastion of boarded and derelict buildings, its 20-year renaissance is nearly complete.

January 3, 2019. New Year’s causes us to look both back and to the future, and no starker contrast comes from Oklahoma City’s Paseo District.

December 27, 2019. I am certain that 2019 will be the beginning of an urban renaissance for downtown Edmond.

December 20, 2019. This holiday season, I will no doubt think of the wide smile that John R. Weeman Jr. couldn’t suppress when speaking about his work in Oklahoma City on the Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

December 13, 2019. Son, father, husband, student, attorney and broker. All titles that Andrew Hwang is comfortable answering.

December 6, 2019. A joint proposal was recently floated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regarding home appraisals. This proposal would make traditional appraisals unnecessary for many new mortgages originated for less than $400,000.

December, 2018. Before there was Amazon and the Internet, there was Sears & Roebuck and the Catalog.

November 29, 2018. My colleagues from Coventry University, in the United Kingdom, and I are researching what are called privately owned public spaces, or POPS.

November 15, 2018. Many institutional real estate investors rationally thought that the baby boomers would require more care as they aged, so they built and invested in senior-care facilities. Seems that developers believed that if they built the facilities, the aging baby boomers would come. There are a couple of problems with our predictions.

November 8, 2018. I think that the reduction in average square footage in the last several years, although small, is a good sign that homebuilders are listening.

November 1, 2018. In a state that has seen the development of condominiums as a replacement for small 1950s beach homes, Mexico Beach was probably the best example of what locals call “old Florida.”

November 2018. I get asked a lot of questions about how projects are progressing in and around downtown. Here’s an update on some of the most frequently asked questions:

October 25, 2018. The federal Opportunity Zones program is part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by President Trump last December.

October 18, 2018. It did not take a Ph.D. in real estate to predict the effect of passage of State Question 788, which legalized medical marijuana, on retail real estate in Oklahoma.

October 11, 2018. Locals in Red River claim that there has been an infusion of new guests to New Mexico ski slopes avoiding the smoke and smell of recreational marijuana on the slopes of Colorado.

October 4, 2018. I doubt many reading this column truly understand the role of the Oklahoma Real Estate Commission.

October 2018. I have been getting questions about when the scooters will make it to Downtown Edmond and the University of Central Oklahoma.