A new forum for discussing issues in corporate and commercial real estate has emerged – Twitter!  A good friend of ours, Jason Sandquist, has started a weekly tweet-chat session to discuss issues pertaining to end users and services providers in the commercial real estate space.  Each week a different moderator facilitates a discussion with hundreds of real estate professionals from around the world.
The chat takes place every Friday at 2pm EST.  To participate:

Sign up for a Twitter account
Go to www.crechat.co for a filtered view of the conversation.
If you use Tweetdeck or Hootsuitesimplify the …

During the CoreNet Summit, Chris Werely spoke with Duke Long about how Visual Lease makes it easy to manage leases on the iPad.  Duke is a popular commercial real estate blogger.  Please check out the video and visit www.dukelong.com.

Tomorrow’s webinar will explore the underlying theory behind the proposed FASB changes.  IFMA, a professional association for facility management professionals,  and Visual Lease’s President, Marc Betesh, will outline the potential ramifications and offer advice as to best prepare for the impact.
Topics Include:

Why the Changes Were Proposed
What Will Change
Impact on Lease vs. Buy Decisions
Treatment of Gross vs. Net Leases
The Most Current Updates/Deliberations/Alterations Made to the Original Exposure Draft
How to Start Preparing Now

Background:
Last August, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) sent shockwaves through the commercial real estate world when they proposed significant changes …

The Chicago Summit has kicked off with a great turnout, learning opportunities and networking.  Marc Betesh and Chris Werely sat down with Duke Long today to talk real estate technology and the upcoming lease accounting changes.

Check in at www.dukelong.com for the full video.

Marc Betesh and Chris Werely are headed to Chicago this weekend for the CoreNet Global Summit. If you are headed to the summit, say hello. If not, stay tuned to the Visual Lease blog for daily updates on the topics of conversation, speakers and other real estate buzz. We are very interested to learn how end users are preparing for the FASB’s changes to lease accounting.
We are expecting to see more people using iPad’s and contributing to the social media updates coming out of CoreNet. We will definitey …

We recently had the opportunity to chat with Duke Long and Jason Sandquist from CREpodcast about the proposed FASB/IASB lease accounting changes and how all parties can prepare.
Marc and Chris drop some serious information on what could be a coming storm if businesses, tenants and commercial brokers are not prepared. We discussed the impact on the industry as a whole – as well as what the affects will be for both tenants and landlords in regards to how they handle lease accounting. They also fill …

Visual Lease’s management team, along with Grant Thornton recently hosted a webinar to address the impact on corporate real estate under the FASB/IASB’s proposed lease accounting changes.
The presenters include some of the country’s top real estate lease experts, Marc Betesh and Lou Ferro, as well as Gary Illiano, National Partner at the CPA firm Grant Thornton.
If you were not one of the hundreds who attended, and would like to watch the replay and download the slides, it is now available. Please click here or on the image below.

Marc Betesh and Christopher Werely will be interviewed by crePodcast’s Duke Long and Jason Sandquist on February 23rd.

Visual Lease’s President, Marc Betesh and COO, Chris Werely will be attending a joint FASB/IASB public round table today in Norwalk, CT to discuss the changes to FAS 13 lease accounting.

The impacts of FASB 13 on lease accounting and the necessity for lease administration software.