Category Archives for "For Sale"
What does a cup of coffee reveal about your commercial property value?
Understand the psychology of being a seller. When you go to sell, Nobel Peace Prize-winning studies have shown that it is normal to value what you own more than a buyer. How much is your commercial property worth? The answer to this question may begin with a cup of coffee. Avoid 4 common mistakes that [...] Continue readingHow to get full value for your commercial property
Two brothers retiring from their business hired me to sell their commercial property. We could have valued the property based on the way they used it, assuming that a new owner would want to use it for a similar purpose. But if we had stopped there, these two brothers would have left a lot of [...] Continue readingWhat the commercial property market wants you to know today
If you're not getting the right buyers for your commercial property in today's market, I can pretty much guarantee there's something wrong with the market research you've done. So what's the commercial property market trying to tell you? I tell you exactly what matters and why in this video. Call today for your private consultation: [...] Continue reading
Decreasing Cap Rates Aren’t Scaring Off Investors
The future in industrial real estate seems to be strong if the indicators like the average cap rate mean anything about where markets may be headed. Cap rates continue to drop with the national average being 5.4% for class-A+ products compared to 5.6% for the similar market items the previous year. In Los Angeles, the [...] Continue reading
Why Not Build Up Areas Around Gateway Cities?
There are 13 Gateway Cities around—cities around Massachusetts that are currently struggling, but which could turn out to be important cogs to their regional economies. Many believe the way to turn those economies around might be found right in those cities. Right now, there is a lot of vacant land, or land that is not [...] Continue reading
Mixed Messages in the Retail Market?
There continue to be many store closures and bankruptcies in the retail market, but the overall vacancy rate of these spaces hasn’t yet spiked. Reis, a real estate research firm has optimistically reported that even though there have been more stores closings, the retail vacancy rate has not and is not expected to rise. There are [...] Continue reading
The New Trend–Sale-Leaseback Properties
There is a trend that seems to be growing for corporate sale-leasebacks as one group wants to get unused space off their books, and another group seeks ownership of business-related properties. Sellers are using funds they earn from these transactions to expand their businesses or to increase their value or dividends, but there are other [...] Continue reading
Creativity Is the Key to Keeping Office Spaces Leased
Recently, John Meehan, the new COO of Gemini Rosemont Commercial Real Estate, who is also a former capital markets director, made some comments about the future of office market investments. Meehan spoke about changes in the office real estate market, and he spoke about how those property owners need to be prepared to be creative. [...] Continue reading