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Center City District and the PHI
Last week, the Center City District (CCD) released Housing Development in Perspective: 2018, which examines housing development in Greater Center City—an area…
A Conversation on Design Thinking
Last month, we convened our Senior Advisors to a roundtable on design thinking. Facilitated by ESI Senior Vice President Lee Huang, we…
Step by Step: Machine Learning
This is the latest installment in our Step By Step series, where analysts and research assistants showcase how we use cutting edge…
Funding Public Water: The Protection/Commodity Conundrum
We take the instantaneous availability of safe water for granted. Which is not surprising, since we are 164 years removed from the…
The PHI, New Visualizations and a Look at Seasonality Across Neighborhoods
As 2018 comes into full swing, we've started to look at some new ways to visualize the Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI). To…
Urban China
Recently, I traveled to Guangzhou, China for several weeks, and visited the Pearl Delta. ESI President, Dr. Richard Voith was with me…
Retirement Savings in a Low Interest Rate Environment
As experts in public finance and public policy, Econsult Solutions, Inc.(ESI) has conducted detailed analyses on the preparedness of private sector workers for…
7 Lessons Learned from Silicon Valley
What are the traits of a digital leader in wealth and asset management? What are the steps to get there? As investment firms…
PHI Year in Review: New Neighborhoods Showing Promise
As 2017 closed, the normalized price of housing in Philadelphia was around $120,000. This represents the price for a house with average…
The Future of Real Estate
For the start of 2018 Econsult Solutions decided to look ahead at key trends affecting the real estate industry. Our set of…
Moving Cities: Beijing
Beijing, the political, cultural and economic capital of China, has been growing rapidly over the last several decades. Its population has skyrocketed…
Present Value’s Top 10 Posts of 2017
We hope you have enjoyed our 2017 posts and look forward to what we have in store for 2018. As always, we will…
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