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.

September 27. 2018. Recently the Pivot Awards were presented at the annual Commercial Real Estate Summit hosted by the COCAR and the University of Central Oklahoma Real Estate Program.

September 20, 2018. Food halls are becoming a favorite among real estate developers, who see them as an experiential retail strategy.

August 30, 2018. It is time to register for the 2018 Commercial Real Estate Summit, hosted at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City on Sept. 20.

September 13, 2008. I frequently get questions about the impact of food trucks on the built environment and local restaurants. The short answer is positive to both.

September 6, 2018. While I am proud of our progress in our community, I spend very little time talking about what it takes to sustain an educated real estate workforce in our state in order to maintain and continue this progress.

September, 2018. Downtown Edmond is undergoing some much-needed infrastructure improvements. The project includes installation of new storm drainage pipes in multiple locations downtown, along with new streetscape parking along Edwards and Campbell Streets.

August 23, 2018. The online purchase is important to expanding warehouse activity; however, the local disrupting factor is the passage of medical marijuana in Oklahoma.