REDNews January 2015 Central South Texas

January 2015

In this issue:

Texas Will Outpace the Nation

If I had a Son or Daughter Entering the Job Market...

Texas 2015 Economic Forecast

FOR 100,000+ CRE BROKERS, INVESTORS & DEVELOPERS

Does CPI Reflect Your Real Cost of Living?

Area Retailers

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4320 S. Western Street S. Western Street & Paramount Blvd., Amarillo, Texas

FOR SALE OR LEASE 63,383 SF Building on 5.5 Acres 450 Parking Spaces Seating for 475 employees Remodeled in 1997 Formerly occupied by insurance company as a call center

Amarillo CenterPort Business Park Amarillo, Texas

SITES AVAILABLE Directly served by two BNSF Railway mainlines High-capacity underground utilities Mid-continent location with direct access to I-40 (3 miles) and I-27 (8 miles) via State Loop 335 Located in Amarillo’s Foreign Trade Zone #252 Amarillo’s Freeport status exempts inventory from property taxes Land in CenterPort has a market value of more than $40,000 per acre and is conveyable Brian Jennings, Amarillo Economic Development Corporation 806.379.6411 | brian@amarilloedc.com

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IN THIS ISSUE

C O N T E N T & F E AT U R E S

PROPERTIES FOR SALE/LEASE

1 -3, 5, 7-9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-21, 1-3, 5, 7 – 12, 14 – 25, 27 – 29, 23, 25, 41, 43 33, 36- 41, 54 – 56

COMMERCIAL SERVICES

Environmental 30 Legal Services 27, 41 Moving & Relocation 41

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN TEXAS CRE

Calendar of Events 32, 34, 36 Networking Photos 33, 35, 37 Deals & Announcements 38-40

ARTICLES 2015 Texas Economic Forecast If I Had a Son or Daughter Entering the Job Market What’s Ahead for 2015 Houston CRE Does CPI Reflect Your Real Cost of Living?

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10, 12, 14, 16, 18 22 24 28, 29

SIZE:

+/- 2.71 acres of land

FRONTAGE:

+/- 460’ along Loop 610 southbound feeder +/- 245’ along Post Oak Blvd.

CURB CUTS:

5 on Loop 610 feeder 4 on Post Oak Blvd

AREA ATTRIBUTES:

William A. McDade 713.577.1876 Peter Mainguy 713.577.1782

Kristen McDade 713.577.1808

Nolan Mainguy 713.577.1841

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32.1 million square feet of office space 4.2 million square feet of retail space 7,100 hotel rooms 100+ restaurants Booming residential market

TRAFFIC COUNTS Post Oak Blvd. at the West Loop – 32,000 (2011) West Loop 610 at Post Oak Blvd. – 217,300 (2012)

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100,000+ CRE BROKERS, INVESTORS & DEVELOPERS

PUBLISHER Ginger Wheless ginger@rednews.com

PUBLISHER’S LETTER

EDITOR Marjorie Gohmert info@rednews.com

STAFF WRITER Janis Arnold janisarnold1@gmail.com Matthew Chisari matt@rednews.com

Dear Readers,

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appy New Year! I hope your holidays were exceptionally good, that you’re not five pounds heavier and if you made any New Year’s resolutions, they are still intact!

The big topic of discussion for everyone seems to be what effect the price of oil will have on CRE in 2015. The overall consensus I’m hearing from you is that Texas is not being overbuilt and although we may not have the sales/leasing frenzy in 2015 that we had in 2014, it is still anticipated to be a “good year” for commercial real estate in 2015.

Texas CEO Magazine held a 2015 Economic Forecast Event in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio last November. The impressive line-up of speakers covered all aspects of economic indicators ranging from energy, healthcare, real estate, tech, financial, etc and its effects in 2015. The conclusion is that Texas will continue to outpace the nation.

(See pages 10, 12, 14, 16, 18.)

Martin O’Malley’s analysis on why the CPI does NOT reflect your cost of living makes for an informative read on pages 28, 29.

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ray Hankamer rhankamer@gmail.com Jim Wilkie jimwilkie@swbell.net

ART DIRECTOR Mya Dale mya@rednews.com

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ACCOUNTING Benton Mahaffey accounting@rednews.com

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Also, be sure to read Ray Hankamer’s article to the Millennials moving into the job market. It’s actually good advice for anyone gainfully employed – not just the new-tothe-workforce.

Bri Martinez bri@rednews.com

Here’s to your very happy and successful 2015!

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TEXAS WILL OUTPACE THE NATION

2015 ECONOMIC FORECAST

www.texasceomagazine.com TEXAS CEO MAGAZINE

Yücel sees the likelihood of ending 2014 at a 3.5 percent emSenior VP/Director of Research , FRB of Dallas ployment growth rate for Texas while the U.S. rate is forecast to finish up 1.9 percent. Yücel spoke in both Dallas and Austin, and Anil Kumar, Senior Research Economist and Advisor, shared his observations and statistics in both Houston and San Antonio. The forecast events were held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the FRB Houston Branch, the FRB San Antonio Branch, and at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin. Collaborators for the 2015 Forecast events were Texas CEO Magazine, Texas Enterprise and the McCombs Alumni Network.

The following are excerpts of Texas CEO MagaThe following are excerpts of Texas CEO Magazine’s full recap of this informative event which took zine’s full recap of this informative event which took place in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio in place in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio November 2014. For the full article, please go to in November 2014. For the full article, please go www.texasceomagazine.com to www.texasceomagazine.com

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bor shortage that will slow our growth rate.

With Texas the number one producer of oil & gas in the nation, Yücel reminded everyone, “We don’t only produce oil, we supply the world with oil & gas services with one-quarter of U.S. refining capacity and 60 percent of the petrochemical capacity based in Texas.”

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In addition to oil & gas jobs, Yucel noted there are jobs in professional services, construction and manufacturing within the energy sector paying very high wages – the highest wages among all industries – which is bringing significant amounts of income into the Texas economy. In 2012, Midland was the metro with the highest per capita income growth and highest per capita income at $83,000 – greater than New York or San Francisco.

The price of oil has been tracking downward in the last several months, and while that helps the consumer in gas prices, Yücel cautioned that oil from shale, the kind produced in Texas, is expensive and needs to be at $70 a barrel to be profitable, so if prices fall below $70 it will stifle growth in the industry and likely within Texas.

Yücel sees the world economy in a flux and the greatest risks to Texas are the economies of Europe and Asia, along with a la-

Shortages of skilled workers and vacant lots for building have caused some bottlenecks in the construction sector, especially for single-family homes, noted Anil Kumar. The result is a reduced supply of homes on the market, with current supply levels sitting at 3.6 months statewide, much lower than the real estate market’s ideal 6-month supply.

This reduced supply has caused increased home prices, reducing the availability of affordable housing.

Kumar sees this trend starting to change.

“There is some good news,” Kumar said.

FRB, Senior Research Economist & Advisor “It appears the housing price appreciation has started to soften a bit.”

Anil Kumar

Mine Yucel

With phrases like, “broad based growth,” “robust employment” and “Texas will outpace the nation,” Mine Yücel, Senior Vice President/Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (FRB), kicked off the first of four 2015 Economic Forecast panels.

Following the economic crisis, mortgages that are 90-plus days delinquent or in foreclosure reached record highs, but they have been steadily declining and are now nearing pre-recession levels.

Who’s Got the Jobs?

While energy may top all others in sector growth at over nine percent, energy still represents only 2.6 percent of Texas jobs. The highest number of jobs added this year is in the professional and business services sectors with one-third of them in technical and scientific jobs. The next highest sector of growth in jobs was in trade, transportation and utilities, with retail jobs the largest gainer.

The high rate of growth has also led to labor shortages, especially in energy and construction. “We have one Houston contact who reported he was hiring armed guards to keep poachers away from his work sites,” noted Yücel. Specifically, there are shortages in specialized workers such as welders, masons, and plumbers and many employers tell Yücel they can’t find workers who can pass the Federal background checks.

While one construction sector, road and bridge, is not doing well, residential construction contracts are steadily growing and up about 6.4 percent yearover-year. “Our contacts are telling us there’s a shortage of developable lots and higher construction costs and labor shortages are limiting growth, and that’s also extended delivery time,” said Yücel.

Yücel cautioned attendees, “These labor shortages aimed at job growth can’t continue at this pace and it’s going to slow as we go forward.”

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Tom Falk

David Seaton

Engineering & Industrial Construction • In July there was a big jump – including a record high – for construction contract values in Texas. Construction on the new Dow Chemical plant project in Freeport began, part of a $4 billion Gulf Coast expansion project being built for Dow by Fluor Corporation. In addition, Exxon has also announced a new plant in Baytown • While there is a bright future in industrial engineering and construction based on pent-up demand, there are two areas of concern for Seaton: comprehensive immigration reform and availability of resources. Seaton said, “We need the immigrants to CEO of Fluor continue to grow.”

Consumer Package Goods • Focusing on today’s consumer, there are shifts in purchasing based on ethnicity, age, earning power, and most importantly, innovation.

• Forty-nine percent of new births in Texas will be Hispanic and that demographic shift impacts how Kimberly-Clark sells Huggies and through what channels.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation • By 2020, 35 percent of the population of the U.S. will be over age 50. (Kimberly-Clark also sells Depend and Poise products.)

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• Falk’s answer to growth is the need to drive real innovation. If you drive meaningful innovation, you can still convert the consumer.

Retail • Retail represents 70 percent of economic spending in the U.S. and it’s the largest employer category in the country.

• Fuel prices are low, which is having a positive influence on spending and confidence is high, so there’s a sense of well being.

• The next influence to consumer behavior is the AAS factor: Amazon, Apple and Samsung. In 2014, two-thirds of retail sales in the United States were projected to be from those three companies.

• Malls are the site of discretionary spending. If you unload the kids at the mall, they disappear into the stores and their spending is on technology.

• Malls are global marketplaces. Where there used to be 65 companies operating department stores in various cities in the United States, today there are five or six. It’s all about globalization with companies like Zara and Mango.

• If you’re innovative and you recognize the consumer that spends online stays online, and if they spend in the store, they spend in the store,” he said. “If you have a customer who spends on both channels, you have a much more valuable, loyal customer.

• If retailers can adapt to change, JC Penny they can succeed.

• We operate 900 hair salons because it’s very hard to get your haircut online.

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up to 140 percent of their cash flow and are relying on the capital markets to make up the gap. But even if the price of oil goes down to $75-$80 per barrel, many plays can still make a 15 percent return. The real question is: Will the boardrooms and shareholders embrace high spending in a lower price environment?

Armstrong anticipates that the quick decline of existing production will trigger higher prices over the next six to 18 months.

• If we end up with low prices for a while it won’t last long before we have a correction and go right back up. By that time, the world tends to expand demand with lower prices and we’ll reset the bar and go forward.

Imports & Exports • Commerce at the port is the strongest in its history, and the port is seeing large construction projects in export cargo.

• Our manufacturing partners on the Houston Ship Channel have invested approximately $35 billion in manufacturing and export capability in the last three years and there is a significant increase in exports of manufactured petrochemical products to foreign markets.

• Six major plastic resin manufacturing projects have been announced on the Houston Ship Channel, all coming online between late 2016 and late 2017.

• Our petrochemical partners have advised us they expect their exports to double and possibly triple in the next two to three years • Our regional population is growing faster than any other region in the nation and it’s expected to double and even triple in the next 20 to 30 Port of Houston Authority Board of Directors years. Regional population growth drives consumer demand, Janiece Longoria

Andy Greg Armstrong

Oil & Gas • Despite lower oil prices, the Federal Reserve says the energy sector is holding steady.

• Production in the United States and Canada is on the rise. Producers in the U.S. are spending about $100 billion a year at current activity levels, with major investments in Texas – primarily South and West Texas. Texas Chairman & CEO Plains All American Pipeline is responsible for about half the projected growth in U.S. production over the next four years.

• Production in the U.S. and Canada is 3.5 million barrels of crude a day. In the next four years, it’s expected to grow to 3.9 million • The challenge is the quality of the crude. About two-thirds of the 3.9 million barrels a day are going to be medium and light, sweet crude oil and condensate. The majority of the 5.2 million barrels a day we import are heavy and medium sour. There’s a quality imbalance here that we have to handle.

• The petroleum industry is waiting for guidance from the government because the U.S. is prohibited from exporting light crude. If the government would give us a little bit of clarity, we could expend some capital and handle that.

Right now they’ve gone silent and that’s the worst thing because that creates paralysis.

• There’s a time of volatility coming because the quality of crude being produced doesn’t match the quality that most refineries are set up to run but the outcome will be positive. “If you know the storms are coming, you can prepare for them and you know what the outcome is.”

• U.S. companies spending $90-$100 billion a year require capital and “constructive” oil prices. Many smaller producers are spending

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which in turn drives demand for products delivered as containerized cargo.

• We’re already the leading Gulf Coast port handling 66 percent of containerized cargo.

Because of our strategic location and our population reach, we will be the beneficiary of significant additional cargo across our docks with the expansion of the Panama Canal.

• The Port of Houston is investing a billion dollars over the next five years in both dredging and infrastructure.

• Refrigerated cargo is also a potential growth area.

Bobby Robbins, M.D.

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Texas Medical Center Health Care • One area not directly affected by the oil industry is health care. The Greater Houston Partnership says population growth will add 7,900 doctors and nurses to the employment rolls in 2014. The future is bright for large hospitals.

• I don’t think the future is bright for small hospitals in small towns. As incentives and rewards in health care change, hospitals will be forced to deliver the highest quality product at the lowest price with the best customer service.

• Now, hospitals are being held accountable for such metrics as patient mortality and length of hospital stays. The big institutions like the ones in the TMC with healthy balance sheets that are forward looking and innovative, have gotten the message and are shifting from fee for service to value-based operations.

• Robbins said his biggest challenge is getting all of the institutions that make up the Texas Medical Center to work together on interdisciplinary projects.

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2015 ECONOMIC FORECAST this year, while single-family permits are up 8 percent. Permits in Austin are starting to slow down, while the market waits to see if new construction can be absorbed. Single-family permits are starting to rise again, mostly in the suburbs and xburbs.

Electricity and Water • T he new Ferguson Power Plant, a combined-cycle natural gas plant, has 30 to 40 percent lower emissions and uses 35 percent less fuel than the plant it replaced.

• L CRA is also heavily invested in coal generation and is working through the EPA’s guidelines to curb emissions.

• L CRA’s reservoir system is at 34 percent, which is a good number considering the extent of the drought. Water consumption has decreased in Austin due to raised awareness and sensitivity around the drought.

• F inding new water supplies is difficult due to increased construction costs, extensive legal frameworks and complicated permitting. Currently ground water is mostly treated as a private resource but regulated locally.

Most districts will only grant five-year ground water permits.

Regulations need to be restructured to make the most of these resources.

John Hoffman

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students to return to their original countries after graduation are one reason for the talent scarcity.

• T he U.S. is the second least competitive tax environment in the industrial world – only France is worse.

•W e have to reshape the industrial economy of the U.S, apply technology to the problem, which takes engineers, and we have to attract the capital and encourage it to remain onshore. If those three things get done, there’s no reason why the U.S. can’t remain the number one economy in the world.

Real Estate • While sales in Texas were down in 2014 versus 2013, it has been a good year for real estate.

Most of the decline is due to a reduction in distressed property sales along with a reduction in available affordable housing. Talbot expects a strong real estate year in 2015.

•G ains in real estate prices in Texas continue to outpace the U.S. National year-over-year price gains are expected to run between four and six percent; comparatively, Texas gains will reach between 6 and 10 percent.

COO of Keller Williams • I nventory is tight.

Dallas and Houston saw price increases up eight and nine percent, respectively, last year. Austin’s real estate is the least affordable in the state.

•M ortgage rates are the most important topic in the real estate industry. Rates may drop below 4 percent again, which would further spur the real estate market.

•S tudent loan debt quadrupled between 2003 and 2014, and first-time home buyers are waiting to pay down student loans before they are able to enter the real estate market. These increased loans can dramatically affect millennials’ ability to purchase homes •M ulti-family permits are up more than 30 percent

Jim Talbot

Alex Davern

Technology • There’s an opportunity on the horizon that revolves around the rapid reshaping of the industrial economy – where access to technology is going to fundamentally change the dynamics for the U.S. and many countries around the world.

• Hydraulic fracturing’s cuttingedge technology has solved an industrial problem.

COO of National Instruments • The industrial Internet of Things with its ability to have time synchronized networks, real time operating systems that leverage mass computing power, and the ability to have encrypted wireless communication in high volume, is going to fundamentally change the way the industrial economy works. The industrial Internet of Things is only now taking shape and will have a macro effect on the economy requiring the appropriate investments.

• The United States is the biggest market in the world for just about everything and has tremendous amounts of natural resources, so manufacturing and production shouldn’t be leaving our shores.

• Daven listed three challenges in being more competitive: the execution of manufacturing and competing with low cost labor from other countries, access to talent, and the taxation environment in the U.S. • Davern predicts more industrial and manufacturing jobs returning to the U.S. as the cost of labor becomes more expensive in the rest of the world and the evolution of technology continues. He said if companies can increase the efficiency of labor and production over a wide variety of products in switching to U.S.-based production, we will fundamentally reshape the U.S. economy.

• NI will attempt to hire 250 new engineers and computer scientists in 2015 – and they are hard to find. Immigration policies requiring international

•B y the end of this EVP of Water at LCRA year, Hofmann expects the LCRA to break ground on its first new reservoir since the 1950s.

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Committed capital is over $500 billion right now, which is an amazing number.

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Financial Services • Low interest rates have pros and cons for those in financial services.

Current low rates don’t cause problems for those businesses offering credit at high rates, but can be detrimental to businesses’ President & CEO of USAA balance sheets if the cost of credit rises or spikes.

• A sharp rise in interest rates would be detrimental to business. Roberts cited Europe’s current economic situation as an example of what could happen in the U.S. due to recent volatility in the markets.

• Those who are at or near retirement want to see interest rates go up to get more out of their savings and fixed instrument investments because without an increase in rates, retirement is going to be more challenging.

• Currently life insurance ownership is at a 50year low in the U.S. • The busiest areas for USAA are in the digital and mobile spaces. “We will do $500 million in transactions on mobile devices this year.”

Robles suggested that the business world adjust to meet the needs of millennials and move to newer ways of doing business or younger customers and employees will choose to go elsewhere.

• On the fraud security front, there is a new technology in the U.S that’s been used extensively in Europe, called chip and PIN that embeds a chip in all credit cards and requires a PIN to use. This chip President Emeritus of the Texas Biomedical Institute provides better security to credit and debit card owners to reduce fraud and theft BioTechnology • Biomedical provides one out of every six jobs in San Antonio with more than 40,000 jobs gained in the sector in the last 10 years.

• The biomedical center accounts for $29 billion in economic activity and is the largest economic center in the city • Trevett expressed concern over federal cutbacks on R&D spending. The National Institute of Health’s purchasing power has gone down 25 percent over the last decade. San Antonio does not have abundant jobs available to new Ph.D.s in the area with research facilities, since

CEO of McCombs Partners companies in the sub-$250 million of enterprise value are at their highest level in more than 10 years.

We have strong debt markets, with debt to EBITDA at 2.5 and sub-debt at 3.7 times, which is the highest in 10 years. There’s also plenty of money for making deals with the cash balances of strategic acquirers at $1.3 billion.

• There are four key areas of focus: automotive, retail, energy, and real estate • The transportation sector makes for solid investing due to consolidation that allows for greater equity from those companies, which hasn’t been available for the last few years.

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•M ove to a big city where there are lots of opportunities • Get out and meet as many people as you can in as many fields- knowing what you DON’T want to do is important for discovering what you DO want to do • Follow your instincts with people and hang around those you like and who are willing to teach you.

Personal chemistry is everything in moving forward in life and in business. Move away from anyone who is stifling.

• If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Seek out those you can learn from-and those who are not afraid for their jobs by teaching you. See how you can return the favor by supporting them and helping them move forward.

• Always be willing to start at or near ‘the bottom’-if you are smart and hard-working you will not stay there long, and in the meantime you will earn the respect of those who will remain at the bottom and who you will be managing one day.

• Read widely in very diverse subjects so you will always be good at conversation with anyone--in a conversation, try to talk only 20% of the time and listen intently 80%--learn how to listen...train yourself...the person you listened to will go away flattered by you and will like you and will go out of his way to help you move forward. Be genuinely interested in other people and what makes them ticklearn how to draw them out in conversation so you can learn, while they are feeling relevant.

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BY RAY HANKAMER Panelists: Will Holder, President, Trendmaker Homes; Allen Crosswell, NewQuest Crosswell; Jonathan Brinsden, Midway; Welcome Wilson, Jr, Welcome Group Will Holder: • We are moving full steam ahead with new homes to meet demand • Even if job growth in Houston falls by 50%, that is still a strong number for us • There is only a 3.5 month used-home inventory, which offers a small selection by historical standards • We have the most spec homes under construction in 4 years and our inventory of completed spec homes is low • Since 2008, creation of new lots has lagged home starts, so we still have a bottleneck with lots, which takes about 18 months to develop • Builders are committing to lots years in advance, to have something to build on • Builder costs are rising due to shortages of concrete, licensed plumbers, framers and trim carpenters, architects and engineers and surveyors, site work contractors, and factory components such as windows and cabinets • Higher new home prices are resulting in some market resistance, causing people to stay put and remodel in some cases • Renting becomes more attractive as new homes become more expensive 24 | REDNews.com

BOYARMILLER BREAKFAST FORUM • L ots of new builders from other states are setting up shop in Houston Allen Crosswell: • Grocery-anchored shopping centers follow residential rooftops and there is a lot of growth in this niche of the retail sector, which provides good developer returns • E-commerce continues to grow but it is not really impacting brick-and-mortar stores, and some brick-and-mortar retailers began with e-commerce • Since 2011 Houston has added 450,000 residents, and this requires lots of new retail • There is a finite amount of available retail space in Houston now, and finally rents in this sector are rising, with demand by national tenants pushing rents up 35% in some cases • Improvement in rental rates in retail has lagged behind what multi-family and office developers have been able to achieve, but things are improving now

•C ap rates for investment sales in retail range from 6.5 for credit deals to 8.5 to 9 for older product • There is no pushback yet from tenants on rents • NewQuest Crosswell has $300 million in the development pipeline

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have a diverse economy •W e have not had a lot of speculative development this cycle-most developments have been preleased • We are at a point of equilibrium now so “let’s not get ahead of our skis” • As for mixed-use developments, there is a very delicate balance between “Stay, Play, Work, Live, Shop”-all the elements need to complement one another • We are starting construction of the 5 star Hotel Alessandra early in 2015 in the CBD in Green Street (former Pavillion) Welcome Wilson, Jr.: • Houston has been getting a lot of “Best…” awards in many categories

• T here has been a construction boom in industrial build-to-suit, but supply-demand is still tightly in balance • There is less than 5% vacancy in the industrial sector • 2.9 million SF of industrial space was absorbed this year • There is such a high demand for crane-served space that none is currently available • Investment sales in industrial are capping out at around 7 • Oil prices have always moved like a yo-yo and we will have to wait while they adjust again, since there are geopolitical forces at work as well as regular supply and demand issues • Houston is a good logistics hub for movement of product, and it is getting better, especially with the larger Panama Canal opening in 2016 • Lots of rail is being laid in Cedar Park / Baytown to handle this area’s transshipment needs • Industrial still looks good for 2015, although land costs have doubled in the last three years

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Martin O’Malley

Martin O’Malley is a Senior Vice President with the Houston office of Colliers International.

As a real estate broker, he has specialized in Investment sales for over two decades.

His focus reflects a long standing interest in both finance and investments. A proclivity for analyzing numbers is not confined to understanding his clients’ financial results, but also to comprehending the macroeconomic background and its effects on commercial real estate. The frequent use of CPI in commercial real estate leases has made it a topic of particular interest to Mr. O’Malley. Reading in the popular financial press of changes made to CPI has caused him to delve into it in depth.

He holds an undergraduate degree in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduate degrees in law and business from the University of Michigan Law School and Rice University respectively.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently published its Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October 2014 showing inflation for the last 12 months was 1.7 percent. But you’ve likely noticed that number is a fraction of the price increases you face every day, whether shopping at the grocery store, paying for medical care, or purchasing any of the myriad other things necessary to sustain you and your family. How can that be?

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the first significant change. Seeking to lessen the effects of rapidly rising single family home prices, it substituted a theoretical BLS calculation of the rental value of owner-occupied homes for a component based on the actual sale prices.

Their rationale was that consumers do not buy new homes very often. Subsequently the Clinton Administration wreaked havoc on the numbers.

Among its contributions to creative accounting were the substitution effect, hedonic pricing, and geometric weighting, which are described below along with other deviations from common sense and simple arithmetic:

•S ubstitution of lower priced and lower quality products in the basket of goods when prices of goods rise—for example, substituting hamburger for steak •G eometric weighting, that is, automatically reducing the weighting of goods increasing in price and increasing the weighting of those that decrease in price •M ore frequent reweighting of the basket, making changes every two years rather than every ten.

•H edonic pricing adjustments, that is, lowering the price of goods to reflect the greater

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The last thing the world’s largest debtor, the United States government, wants is higher interest rates. That probably means that a more realistic CPI will need to be preceded by a return to fiscal sanity in Washington—and really, what are the chances of that? enjoyment the consumer receives from changed or improved features (as arbitrarily determined by the BLS) •A ggressive use of seasonal adjustment factors— for example, if gasoline prices usually go up in the summer, they are reduced so that they do not distort (in other words increase) the index •U se of a calculated rental value to reflect housing costs for home owners The effect of all these changes is to drastically understate the rate of inflation. Why might that be?

•S ocial Security payments are indexed to CPI. Rather than actually address the costs and burdens of a program that represents a huge outflow of tax dollars, it is quietly debased.

• I ncome tax brackets are raised every year to reflect increases in CPI. Instead of actually passing a tax increase every year to raise more revenue, taxpayers are forced into higher brackets as their nominal income increases exceed the CPI adjustments.

• Many federal employees have wage increases tied to CPI. Each year they are forced to work for lower real wages as their salaries fail to keep pace with inflation.

The government has a huge financial interest—increasing its revenue and lowering its expenses—to lie about inflation, but the chicanery runs deeper than this. Think about the current state of the economy: The BLS and other government agencies report macroeconomic statistics in currency, figuring in retail sales, industrial production, durable goods orders, and many other factors. Those numbers are all adjusted to reflect real growth by subtracting the rate of inflation. Real retail sales for October 2014 reflected an increase of 2.45 percent when adjusted for the 1.7 percent annual inflation rate.

But what if the rate of inflation is 5.2 or 9.4 percent? In both cases real retail sales contracted, in the latter case dramatically.

So, what is the real rate of inflation?

There’s a statistical service that calculates CPI in the fashion utilized both prior to the Reagan Administration change and prior to the Clinton Administration changes: Shadow Government Statistics (www. shadowstats.com). Its calculation for October 2014, utilizing the pre-Reagan methodology, is a 9.4 percent annual inflation rate. The post-Reagan, pre-Clinton calculation is a 5.2 percent annual rate.

So which inflation rate do we believe: 1.7 percent, 5.2 percent. or 9.4 percent?

Since the lowest rate is the product of a system designed to underreport inflation, it certainly can’t be correct. The other rates are the product of professional statisticians attempting to actually measure inflation

and as such are far more credible.

The officially reported CPI is a fraction of the real rate of inflation, yet it permeates our economy.

Many private and nonfederal government employees have their cost of living increases tied to the official rate. Thus they are experiencing a serious decline in their real incomes, which becomes more acute with each passing year.

Pensioners and Social Security recipients are in more dire straits, since they cannot alleviate the problem by changing to a higher paying job or negotiating a higher salary. It is likely that most middle-income Americans are suffering through a period of protracted decline in their standard of living.

This is occurring against a backdrop of an economy being promoted by both Washington and Wall Street as prosperous and expanding. Those claims don’t pass scrutiny if the numbers supporting them are adjusted for an inflation rate that is in fact a multiple of the officially reported rate.

Can the methodology be corrected?

The problem could be resolved by Congressional action: Simply pass a law requiring a return to the pre-1980 methodology. But that’s unlikely to happen.

The United States government has run large fiscal deficits for many years. Much of the debt to cover these deficits has been acquired by the central bank, the Federal Reserve Corporation, and the purchases are paid for by creating new money.

It’s this increasing money supply that has been the cause of persistent inflation.

Of course, there’s one other benefit we haven’t yet mentioned the government receives by reporting minimal inflation numbers, and that’s a dampening of pressure to increase interest rates.

The last thing the world’s largest debtor, the United States government, wants is higher interest rates.

That probably means that a more realistic CPI will need to be preceded by a return to fiscal sanity in Washington—and really, what are the chances of that?

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NETWORKING CREW San Antonio Holiday Luncheon 1. Dena Courson Welch and Dawn Vernon, IMPACT Award Winners 2. Ray Teske, 2014 Maverick Award Winner 3. Shelley Morkovsky, 2014 Eva Rosow Winner

Irem Austin Christmas Luncheon

1. IREM Austin 2014 Team 2. President Kim Morgan and President-Elect Amy Dandridge

RECA Ideas Forum 1. Mayor Lee Leffingwell 2. Council Member Bill Spelman 3. Mayor Lee Leffingwell and Council Member Bill Spelman discussing and reflecting on their time in office before they leave in January.

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NETWORKING CCIM North Texas - Family Gateway

SCR December Breakfast

1. Big Thank You to all the individuals who volunteered for the 3rd Annual North Texas Service Project at Family Gateway.

2. Children decorating their Christmas Trees and Chris Mims, CCIM. 3. Fun times with Joe Comparin, CCIM and some of the children at Family Gateway.

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ULI North Texas 2014 Holiday Party

1. Allissa Payne & Sherri Collison 2. Ashlynn Wells & Steve Mundt 3. Linda McMahon & Todd Platt

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1. Class of 2014 Houston BOMA Leadership Lyceum 2. Matt Butler, Georgia Pacific, Nikki Donnella, Georgia Pacific and Donna Rosenstein, Jan Pak 3. BOMA Members Morris Chen, Transwestern; Tara Naramore, Tanswestern; Lauren Crenshaw, PM Realty Group

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CREW Houston Holiday Luncheon

1. Cynthia Xue, Independent Broker/ Investor, Jeanette Kew, WestwoodCPM Real Estate and Waylon Themer, City Bank Texas, Veneto Sponsor 2. Cindy and Glen Lee, Texas Funding-Sicilia Sponsor and Imad Abdullah, Landmark Architects 3. Lolly Avant, FidelityRoma Sponsor, Doug Burt, Tarantino, Mary Donna Moceri, Fidelity and Lucas Fertitta, Tarantino 1. CREW Houston has awarded scholarships to three MBA students for Spring 2015: Sarah Beth Davis, Martha Smith, and Michelle Kobelan 2. Laurie Baker hosts her final luncheon as the 2014 Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Houston President

Urban Land Institute Spring Meeting Kickoff Party 1. Billy Burge, Gerald Hines, & Larry Johnson 2. Patrick Phillips, Ann Taylor, & Roger Galatas 3. Abbey Roberson & Jason Tramonte

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Central/South Texas

Ernest L. Brown, IV, CCIM, a managing director in the San Antonio office of Kennedy Wilson’s Brokerage Group, has been re-elected to the national board of directors of the CCIM Institute.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Robby Eaves

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Retail Solutions, a Texas-based retail real estate company, recently hired Robby Eaves as vice president in its Austin office.

BGC Partners Inc. is acquiring Apartment Realty Advisors (ARA) for about $110 million. ARA will be part of the Newmark Grubb Knight Frank commercial brokerage network owned by GCG. Pat Jones (pictured) leads the ARA Austin office

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Austin (SALE) DBG Austin Hotel LLC, an investment company in Plano, purchased the 63 room Days Inn located at 3105 N. I35 . Also included in the sale was the property housing Star Seeds Restaurant. Jay Weir of Hotel Brokers of Austin represented both the seller, Kim & Bailey LLC of Portland Oregon, and the buyer.

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by Brian D. Harris, CCIM, of REOC San Antonio and the buyer was represented by Jim Leatherwood with Silver Oak Commercial.

An unidentified investor purchased Bastrop (SALE) a 15,400 SF industrial building at 159 Settlement Drive.

Saul Arizpe of Retail Solutions represented the seller and Ron Meyeres of Capital Leasing Management & Sales represented the buyer.

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seller, a partnership, to a private investor.

Round Rock (SALW) Griffis Residential, a Denver

based multifamily investment & management company, purchased The Orchard Apartments (512 units) in Round Rock’s La Frontera commercial park for $55.5 million or approximately $109,000 per unit. The project is located at the intersection of IH35, SH45 and the MoPac Expy. Griffis intends to invest $4 million into the community.

Austin (SALE) Tree Apartments, located at 3715 S.

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Austin: (SALE) New York-based ATCO Properties & Management purchased 1300 Guadalupe St., a 45,000

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Austin (SALE) MWM Fund VII Ltd, headed by investor Jay Kaplan, purchased Crossroads Center, a 98,918 SF

retail center at 9070 Research Blvd near Brunet Road & Research Blvd from ATCO Properties & Management, a New York based company.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS North Texas

David Stack

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Michael Rareshide, formerly of Partners National, will serve as executive vice president at E Smith Realty and will focus on national corporate accounts.

Dallas/Ft. Worth Areas

David Stack, formerly of JLL, will serve as senior vice president of project and development services and will be responsible for generating project management and development business for E Smith Realty.

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Irving (SALE) A joint venture of Hines and AEW Capital Management purchased Parc 114, the master-planned

business park in Irving. The acquisition included six buildings with 404,777 SF on 18.5 acres of land which can accommodate 191,262 SF of additional industrial space.

Dallas (SALE) CBRE Capital Market sold Cedar Springs Business Park, a newly constructed office/industrial park located near the corner of Mockingbird Land & Cedar Springs Road.

Dallas- based Berlin Interests, represented by Eric Berlin, purchased the 33,248 SF property from Dallas-based Carlisle Interests.

Jennifer Pierson, Beth Pierson and Cameron Deptula with CBRE represented the seller.

is located at 2350 Crist Road.

CBRE’s Jack Fracker, Josh McArtor, Jonathan Bryan and Heather McClain

represented the seller, Dalfen America Corp.

Branch (LEASE) Advanced Spice leased 55,100 SF and Valdez Corp leased 37,900 SF at Three Valwood Park, 13901 Sentac Drive. Three Valwood Park is being developed by Duke Realty. Tracy Fults of Fults Commercial Real Estate represented Advanced Spice and Valdez. Randy Wood represented Duke Realty inhouse.

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represented the owner in-house.

Ft. Worth (SALE) Industrial Property Trust has purchased the 310,000 SF distribution facility leased to Pier 1 Imports. The building is located at 14900 Trinity Blvd on 14.3 acres. The seller, IDI Gazeley was represented by Randy Baird, Jud Clements and Robby Rieke of HFF. (SALE) Hawaii-based real estate company James Campbell Company, purchased a 2.2 million SF portfolio from Weeks Robinson Properties. The portfolio includes Forum Crossing at 2101 & 3221 E. Arkansas Lane in Arlington, 4800 & 4900 Langdon Road in S. Dallas’ Logistics Park and Bldgs 2 & 4 in the Railhead Industrial Park in Fort Worth. Representatives with Eastdil Secured brokered the sale for Weeks Robinson while Colony Realty Partners represented James Campbell Company.

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Dallas (DEVELOPMENT) Avera, a commercial real estate development, construction and investment firm based in Houston is developing a 345,150 SF distribution center at the NWC State Highway 61 (George Bush Tollway) and January Lane. “The development of Park 161 Distribution Center is a reflection of our continued expansion into the Dallas-Ft. Worth market,” H.T. “Trey” Odom III, founder and CEO of Avera, told GlobeSt.com.

Garland (SALE) Dallas-based real estate fund Atlas CP has

purchased the Firewheel Commerce Center which is adjacent to its largest tenant, Atlas Copco Drilling. The development

7.51 acres at 8356 S. Good Latimer Expressway from Madison Realty Investors for the development of a 340-unit apartment development. Lew Wood and Andrew Doster of Henry S. Miller represented the buyer. Bill White of Madison Realty Investors and Jim DePetris represented the seller.

M U L T I - F A M I L Y Dallas (SALE) Olympus Property purchased The Mosaic, a 440-unit multi-family high rise at N. Akard St & Pacific Avenue. The Mosiac has two towers with 447,504 SF. Olympus Property is planning a multi-million dollar removation for the project.

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Matthews Paradise, a partnership between developers Jack Matthews and Mitch Paradise will build a 275,000 SF office building near the NWC of Dallas North Tollway & US 380.

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Keith Lloyd has joined Marcus & Millichap as a senior associate and a director of the company’s National Office & Industrial Properties Group in Houston.

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Houston (SALE) Liberty Property Trust sold its 6.3 million SF

Houston industrial portfolio for $29.7 million to Boston-based

TA Associates Realty. Properties include: 9500 -0450 Clay

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site off Katy Hockley Road, just north of FM 529 in the Katy area. The tract, which is suitable for a residential development is next to the Newland Communities new Elyson masterplanned community.

Houston (SALE) Rockspring Capital also acquired a 4-acre

redevelopment site on the east side of Yale Street and North Loop 610. It is currently leased to Neff Rental but could be a candidate for redevelopment for possibly mid-rise or mixed-use retail.

(Sale) NAI Houston represented Steadfast Development Company LLC in the purchase of 5.0886 acres of industrial land at Willow Place N & Willow Place W from Revo II, LP. The buyer will construct new spec industrial buildings on the property. Travis Land, SIOR and John Ferruzzo, SIOR of NAI Houston represented the buyer and Keith Grothaus of Caldwell Companies represented the seller.

Andrew W. Sowell, SIOR, Principal with Boyd Commercial/CORFAC International, has been inducted as the new President of the Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter of The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR).

Cliff Rudolph of the Tanglewood Property Group

Dallas-based commercial real estate development & investment firm KDC and Dallas based Sarofim Realty Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Houston based Fayez Sarofim & Company are developing a 68,950 SF office building at 681 Greens Parkway for Lennar Homes of Texsa Land and Construction LTD. Jerry Frey, Ron McWherter and Darren Gowell with CBRE represented Lennar and JP Hutcheson with Cassidy Turley represented KDC and Sarofim Realty Advisors.

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Houston (SALE) Fuller Realty Partners has purchased the Exxon Mobil building located at 13401 North Freeway.

The company also acquired adjacent land from a separate owner that will allow for additional parking for future tenants. JLL’s Rudy Hubbard, Kevin McConn and Rick Goings were involved in the transaction.

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LaSalle Investment Management

reportedly agreed to buy 1000 Main, formerly known as Reliant Plaza, for $450 million which is a record breaker price for a Houston trophy tower. The seller is Dallas based, Invesco Real Estate and an unidentified Australian entity. The sale was handled by CBRE.

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Rosemont Realty, a Santa Fe, New Mexico based CRE investment company, purchased Kirkwood Tower, a 286,000 SF office building from Denver based Amstar and Dallas based Frontier Equity.

Rosemont now owns 16 building representing nearly 2.5 million square feet in the Houston area.

Houston (SALE) British International School of Houston (BISH) purchased 33 acres at the SWC of Westgreen Blvd and Franz Road for a 274,000 SF & 2000 seat campus for Pre-K – 12th grade and is scheduled to open in September 2016.

Andrew Spence and Cape Bell from Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer and the seller, KUT Partners, LTD was represented by John Deboben.

Katy (LEASE) Ersa Grae Corp signed StollerUSA and East West Bank to 40,632 SF and 20,316 SF, respectively, at its Gateway at Spring Valley Building at 9090 Katy Freeway in Katy, Texas. StollerUSA will occupy the top two floors and EastWest Bank will occupy space on the second floor.

Parker Duffie and Jason Presley of CBRE represented Ersa Grae Corp, the landlord and development company in the transaction.

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Houston (DEVELOPMENT) Regency Centers, a Floridabased shopping center owner is developing a 385,000 SF retail center at the SEC of Grand Parkway & Holzwarth Road in Springwood Village. CDC Houston Inc is developing the 1800 acre master-planned community.

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