MEREDA Releases the MEREDA Index Report for 2024
MEREDA has released its 19th edition of The MEREDA Index. As a key economic indicator for Maine, the MEREDA Index measures the pulse of the state’s real estate industry and is...
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Listen Up! We’re Doubling Up for Your Listening Pleasure and Have Added a Second June Episode!
A Conversation with Corinne Watson of Tiny Homes of Maine and Kevin Hancock of Hancock Lumber Corinne Watson, Co-Founder of Tiny Homes of Maine, and Kevin Hancock, Managing Owner of...
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The Right Equation for Responsible Development: Spotlight on Firehouse Village (Scarborough)
Each year, the Maine Real Estate & Development Association (MEREDA) recognizes some of the state’s most “noteworthy and significant” real estate projects, completed in the previous year. The exemplary projects...
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MEREDA’s Annual “Strikes for Scholars” Bowl-a-Thon Fundraiser Raises Scholarship Funds for Maine Students
MEREDA is thrilled to announce that its Annual Strikes for Scholars Bowl-a-Thon Fundraiser will once again enable the organization to donate a total of $15,000 towards scholarships to Maine students entering...
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Maintaining the Market Value of Lakefront Property
Lake Value and Vulnerability Maine lakes are a national treasure. Like magnets, their allure irresistibly draws us to them and makes lakefront property a high value commodity. Most of us...
Read ArticleMEREDA’s Morning Menu: The Changing Office Landscape – a look at Coworking
As demand for commercial real estate increases, how can property owners, brokers and developers meet the evolving expectations of modern businesses? What are the emerging trends in real estate, design...
Read ArticleCheck out MEREDA in the News
After its Annual Real Estate Forecast Conference held in front of nearly 800 attendees on January 21, 2016, MEREDA is in the News…Portland Press Herald – 01/21/16 Maine real estate...
Read ArticleGreenleaf and the Legislative Response To It.
This article will discuss the Law Court’s 2014 decision in Bank of America, N.A. v. Greenleaf, 2014 ME 89, and the legislative response to it in 2015. The discussion should...
Read ArticleMEREDA’s Morning Menu: Our Lakes, Our Future: Preserving Shorefront Value – Bangor Edition
Maine lakes are not only beautiful, they are a surprisingly powerful economic engine — generating more than $3.5 billion in annual spending, providing more jobs than any single Maine employer,...
Read ArticleSTART MAKING DENSE: When it comes down to it, housing affordability’s ‘guy behind the tree’ is you and me
When talking about taxes and tax policy, the venerable Louisiana Senator, Russell B. Long, is quoted saying: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me; tax the guy behind the tree.” The ubiquitous “other...
Read ArticleAre you Planning for a Highly Collaborative Office Workforce?
Most business professionals have witnessed business telecommunication services shifting rapidly in recent years from traditional fixed (landline) services to mobile-centric services. Professional office planners, architects and commercial building contractors need...
Read ArticleYear End Planning for Businesses
Is your business ready? Businesses seeking to maximize tax benefits through 2015 year-end tax planning may want to consider several general strategies, such as use of traditional timing techniques for...
Read ArticleThe Maine Real Estate & Development Association’s (MEREDA’s) Signature Event, the Annual Real Estate Forecast Conference & Member Showcase will be held on January 21, 2016
Over 700 of the state’s leading real estate experts are expected to attend MEREDA’s TD Bank sponsored event being held on January 21, 2016 at the Holiday Inn By the...
Read ArticleExaggerations on the Death of the Private Office
Trends in the workplace are changing at an increasing rate – open plan, private, hoteling, third space. Office space can really be reduced to three basic types of work, space...
Read ArticleFinding Equitable Stormwater Funding
Operational and capital costs associated with stormwater management seem to grow every year, driven higher by increasingly stringent permits, which mandate pollutant load reductions and require increased system resiliency. The...
Read ArticleThe Right Equation for Responsible Development: Spotlight on The Hyatt Place Portland, Old Port
In the fifth of a 7-part series exclusive to the Maine Maine Real Estate Insider, we’ll provide an up-close look at the most notable commercial development projects of the past...
Read ArticleMEREDA’s Morning Menu – Our Lakes, Our Future: Preserving Shorefront Value
Maine lakes are not only beautiful, they are a surprisingly powerful economic engine — generating more than $3.5 billion in annual spending, providing more jobs than any single Maine employer,...
Read ArticleThe “Cap Rate”
You may hear the term “Cap Rate” in discussions or articles involving commercial real estate. Even if you already have an understanding of what the term means, here is a...
Read ArticleMEREDA Endorses Question 2 on Statewide Ballot, Opposes Question 2 in Portland
MEREDA Endorses Question 2 on Statewide Ballot MEREDA supports Question 2 on the statewide ballot, the Senior Affordable Housing Bond. This bond would authorize the sale of $15 million in...
Read ArticleThe Right Equation for Responsible Development: Spotlight on The Bay House Condominiums
In the fourth of a 7-part series exclusive to the Maine Maine Real Estate Insider, we’ll provide an up-close look at the most notable commercial development projects of the past...
Read ArticleDo You Have a License For That? When You Need More Than A Handshake
If you own real estate, there may be an occasion when a neighbor, contractor, or someone else seeks a favor. For example, someone may want to temporarily use or pass...
Read ArticleMEREDA’s Morning Menu Event – Creating in Maine: the “State of Manufacturing” and a Site-Selection/Plant Development Case Study
Did you know there are over 1,800 manufacturers in Maine employing over 55,000 people with an average salary of $54,000/year? The impact of manufacturing in our state currently and in...
Read ArticleEmerging workplace challenges: age, weight and drugs
Maine once led the nation in the cost of workers’ compensation insurance but reforms and hard work have changed all that. Since 1992, costs have been cut in half. The...
Read ArticleMEREDA’s Morning Menu Event: Real Estate Partnerships: How to make money while keeping your investors, your bank and the IRS happy.
In today’s complicated real estate market, rarely can one party bring all the resources needed to complete an ambitious real estate project. Whether it be capital, know-how or a below-market...
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