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This one is more for the residential folks than it is for the commercial, but much of it still applies.  I’m not going to editorialize much on this one and instead send you to the NAR site for [...]

At the link is the CoStar Commercial Real Estate Repeat Sales Indices (CCRSI), which looks at the 766 transactions in July and more than 100,000 sales since its inception.  This is quite useful.  [...]

This has become an annual legislative fight since the Democrats regained control of congress in 2007.  Just the uncertainly alone casts serious doubts and further delays the commercial real [...]

This is encouraging.  It’s the fourth consecutive monthly price increases for the General Commercial Index of 2.4% for investment quality product and .7% for general commercial.   The monthly [...]

I’ve written several times in the past year about the September 2010 newly launched SBA 514 program, and like so many government programs as of late, has been a failure.  How could this happen so [...]

Who will be first with a toy like this?  Actually, I shouldn’t call it a toy because it would be a very useful business tool.  Will it be Apple with the iPhone 7 or 8 by the time this is [...]

Columbus, Ohio (pop. 787,933) I had no idea that according to USA Today, Columbus Ohio comes in second in the number of playgrounds in a city.  The number almost equals the number of golf courses [...]

We had a decent head of steam from the fourth quarter of 2010 through second quarter of 2011, but a bunch of uncertainty is now in the air.  Let’s hope this doesn’t lead to another downturn after [...]

Steve Rosansky put together a comparison of what could be a common scenario to show the advantage of doing a 1031 exchange versus cashing out. In this example he makes the assumption that a [...]

True, the 180 day 1031 exchange deadline for closing deadline is absolute (with certain exceptions) and one is if the relinquished or replacement property is in a presidentially declared disaster [...]