Welcome to NYC Amazon! You arrived as Brooklyn mourns the loss of the ‘L” train for the next 2 years (or as the folks along the new 2nd Avenue Subway can attest 2 years is Dog Years). The ULI 2019 Emerging Trends in Real Estate highlighted “Dealing with the real costs of free delivery. Real estate will need to pay attention to how potential solutions—such as congestion pricing—impact land values and investment opportunities.” The...

Recruiting top executives has always been a challenge, but more recently with a booming economy, executives are more often than not well positioned in their current firm, so extracting them has become exponentially more difficult. When we overlay a relocation into the mix, it becomes even more difficult when we introduce family considerations, tax differentials when an exec is leaving a low-to-no state income tax state such as Texas, and a house...