- 7 May 2012: Buyers Guide -
Time for an Update
The inPulse smartwatch links to Android or BlackBerry phones, allows users to check messages, download apps, and customize clock faces.
- 7 May 2012: Commercial Real Estate Apps -
Apple’s App Store recently surpassed 25 billion app downloads. How many of those were for commercial real estate?
- 7 May 2012: Functional Fliers -
Despite recent technological innovations, property fliers continue to be an integral part of commercial real estate marketing programs.
- 7 May 2012: Down, but not Out -
Retail construction is a shadow of its former self with development activity falling to its lowest levels in more than a decade.
- 7 May 2012: Flier Right -
Once the cornerstone of commercial real estate marketing efforts, printed property fliers have since been overshadowed by listing services, emails, and other digital platforms.
- 7 May 2012: Letters of Intent -
No one wants to waste time and money on a deal that the parties will never complete.
- 7 May 2012: Hold or Sell? -
The real estate market collapse resulted in countless distressed condominium developments.
- 7 May 2012: CCIM Connections -
Retail Wizard
As commercial real estate experts gear up for RECon 2012 in Las Vegas, Gary M.
- 7 May 2012: Deal Makers -
The Biggest Deal
Leonard P.
- 7 May 2012: Regional Outlook -
Midwest
Chicago’s Big Deal
Here’s a classic value-add deal in the Windy City: Berkley Properties LLC purchased the 1929 Civic Opera Building for $125.8 million from Tishman
- 7 May 2012: 1031 Timing -
Under Internal Revenue Code Section 1031, real property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment may be exchanged and capital gain taxes deferred through a d
- 7 May 2012: Giving Back -
As commercial real estate pr
- 7 May 2012: Financing Fundamentals -
When selecting an investment, the aphorism “location, location, location” remains critical for today’s commercial real estate buyers and sellers.
- 7 May 2012: Experience Pays Off -
Commercial real estate is often a family business, and some CCIMs travel many paths before returning to their roots.
- 7 May 2012: The Valuation Trap -
Appraisals in today’s market are not for the faint of heart. Comparable sales are scarce, markets are changing quickly, and rules and regulations are stricter than ever.
- 7 May 2012: Rethinking Retail -
Retail is one property sector that never has time to rest on its laurels.
- 7 May 2012: Student Housing Graduates -
In the early 1990s off-campus student housing was primarily single-family homes and small apartment buildings around universities.
- 7 May 2012: Market Trends -
Developers Get Ready
While new multifamily construction may not be out of the ground yet, developers are busy with “land acquisition, lining up financing, and getting bui
- 9 April 2012: CCIMs connect to close a $1.1 million multifamily deal -
- 12 March 2012: International Beat -
Russia's Big Deal
More proof that a well-located retail center can always command top dollar: A Morgan Stanley real estate fund has agreed to buy the largest mall in St.
- 12 March 2012: Mexico or Brazil? -
With so much money accumulated on the sidelines, rising prices for U.S.
- 12 March 2012: Buyers Guide -
All Talk, No Recharging
The Droid Razr Maxx, an Android smartphone from Motorola, gives users more than 21 hours of talk time on a single charge.
- 12 March 2012: L.A. Industrial -
The competition for industrial space in the submarkets surrounding Los Angeles is aggressive, and the battle by investors is heating up. While L.A.
- 12 March 2012: CCIM Connections -
Market Monitor
Economists are mostly prophets of doom these days, but Mark Dotzour, chief economist and director of research for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University,
- 12 March 2012: Big Deals in Small Markets -
As prices climb ever higher in primary markets, commercial real estate investors are making their way to non-core markets in search of better returns.
