It’s been a slow process but the U.S. economy is experiencing a sustainable recovery, but headwinds are still threatening the hope for expansion. For the second quarter 2012 update on the State of the U.S. Real Estate Market, Mr. Korpacz will focus on the impact of the slowly, improving economy on both real estate space and capital markets as well as changes in transaction volumes, prices, and cap rates by property categories and major m...

Maricopa County (AZ) was struggling in managing numerous assessment appeals. The Assessor’s Office was literally moving thousands of pieces of paper from department to department, through several staff including the in-taking clerical staff to appraisal hands, to other clerical hands for entries and back full-circle to the in-taking staff that was to finish the process by mailing out the appeal decisions. Documents were placed in wrong f...