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Investors showed a sharpened appetite for commercial property, pushing prices up in the second quarter.  I realize that the second quarter, the end of June, sounds so long ago given what’s [...]

We need a good laugh today.  Minute 5:15 and on is especially good.  Hope the door latch is REAL strong.

I’m going to write about something positive.  True, the DOW is down about 300 as this is written and the CMBS market is running into rough waters so the overall situation out there is not exactly [...]

It has been claimed for as long as I can remember that Columbus has the best access to the American market.  Three Scale Research tested this claim and found it to be true.  They used the 2010 [...]

Only in Columbus – a bar bike.  Burn your buzz while you’re getting another one.  American ingenuity at its finest and oh so appropriate for Columbus.  It would be some real excitement and [...]

For those of us in this business who are Droid users welcome the introduction of the Droid app for loopnet, available in Market or the link below. [...]

At 57,000 square feet, this is no starter home, but is the largest private home in Central Ohio, just east of Columbus, reports the Columbus Dispatch and is available for a paltry $15,000,000.  [...]

Real Estate information provider CoStar Group just introduced its first ever app for Apple’s iPad “This is completely different,” said Andrew Florance, the firm’s founder and CEO, speaking [...]

Once every six months or so I post a basic primer on 1031 Exchanges.   This one is more for first timers and doesn’t cover anything more esoteric such reverse exchanges.   This is still a [...]

In Southern California 38,975 new and resale homes sold last month.  That’s up 9.7% from May 2011 and down 11.4% from June 2010, which was the last month of the Home Buyers’ Tax Credit.  Median [...]

For my 200th post, I’ll put up something fun instead of the gloomy news that’s accidentally been the focus of my last few posts. There’s a very fun event coming up on August 20, 2011, [...]

This one ties in closely with what I posted yesterday regarding the decline in home ownership in the country.  The national rate, which stood at 66.4% at the end of March would be just under 60% [...]

One of my favorite analysts, Mark Heschmeyer of CoStar News, authored a thought provoking piece on the reality of the American dream being home ownership by talking to real estate professionals [...]

I made a decision when I started this blog two years ago to keep politics out of it – mostly.  I’m sure anyone who has read my writings over the last couple of years can pretty well guess [...]

Considering that this one originates from the NRA, you’d expect a little positive spin here and you get a bit.  Good news is that single family starts rose 9.4% last month, and the bad news is [...]

There are big storm clouds on the horizon and it’s not showing yet in the numbers.  Business like predictability, good or bad, and the current uncertainty will damage the numbers for third [...]

A reported $35.48 billion was raised in the second quarter for acquisitions and refinancings.  The total for the first half was $66.43 billion.  It took nine months last year to raise the same.  [...]

LaSalle Investment Management is forecasting $2 billion of property investment in 2011 primarily in major markets such as Southern and Northern California, Chicago and Washington, DC. They also [...]

I’ll do a real quick summary of his points then link you directly to his article. 1031 Exchange Opportunity – Exchange one property with a low basis for another or more better performing or [...]

The CRE burden eases to the nation’s 7584 insured banks and thrifts.  The total of distressed commercial real estate assets are $171 billion and that’s only 1.3% of all bank assets. As distress [...]