Columbus

International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) met in New York City on December 5 and 6.  A Panel of eight national retailers agree that “urban retail is not the last frontier, but an evolving [...]

As Columbus gets ready to celebrate its bicentennial next year, downtown has blossomed with new projects with both condo lofts and apartments.  Walker with Columbus Underground recapped 12 new [...]

I read a piece on Inman News a few minutes ago that I find quite striking.   This is further development on the build better, not bigger design theme that we’re seeing in urban infill areas [...]

NAR announced that according the Pending Home Sales Index, October’s 93.3 rating represents a 9.2% increase year over year, and all US regions show an increase.  The gain in the Midwest was [...]

Seeking additional long lease, investment grade, single-tenant, triple net leased, opportunities nationwide. Please contact me, Scott Harris at 310-473-4789 or 614-905-6614.

Forbes.com Ranked Columbus, Ohio in third pace of all major metros in tech job creation over the last five years.  Columbus created nearly 17% growth in that period and was beaten only by Seattle [...]

I get quite a few calls/emails asking for exactly the same property type backed by the same type of lease. The commercial real estate flavor du jour is retail, single-tenant, single parcel with [...]

Homes sales in Central Ohio were 1,543 for the month and that’s up almost 8.6% over the 1,421 for October last year.   Homes going into contract increased 46% last month over a year ago making [...]

I’ve been discussing single tenant, net leased opportunities over many of  last few posts because I’ve been searching for several 1031 uplegs.  Every one of the buyers have been looking for [...]

The Great Recession has produced an increase of 1.4 million new renters this year, which is a 4% rise in the last year according to Mark Heschmeyer at CoStar News.  And again, since construction [...]

This is much more positive news for Central Ohio that there has been positive net absorption for the last six consecutive quarters.  Overall vacancy rate has fallen to 11% from 14.7% same time [...]

The State of Ohio approved a $10 million loan to Franklin County to help facilitate the purchase of 18,000 seat Nationwide Arena from Nationwide Insurance and the Columbus Dispatch.  The loan [...]

Columbus scored well on a Chamber of Commerce survey of young professionals.  79% of respondents view Columbus as a vibrant city where folks are using Public parks, trails, recreation areas and [...]

Homes sales in Central Ohio were 1,719 for the month and that’s up almost 17% over the 1,474 for September last year.  Homes going into contract increased 58% last month over a year ago.  Total [...]

Central Ohio does what it always does and recovers faster than the rest of the Midwest. September unemployment was down to 7.7%. That’s not where we’d like to see it, but it sure beats some other [...]

To brighten the Monday a little bit I thought I would put together a short video of the fundraiser we did last weekend here in Columbus Ohio at the Columbus Zoo. We don’t get much weather as [...]

Here’s another one from Mark that follows on what I just wrote in the last post. And by the way, I need this kind of product for both buyers and sellers. See my contact page. It’s the cheap [...]

There’s plenty of money out there, but with a huge aversion to risk.  Question is where to put it.  You can’t make anything on money market, bond yields are way down, Europe is still in meltdown, [...]

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 [...]

Nationwide Realty Development received Grandview Heights’ planning commission final approval to begin construction next month of a 154 unit residential complex at the 90 acres Grandview [...]