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A couple of days ago I promised to put together a chart of the S&P and Moody’s credit ratings for the major retailers that you’re likely to encounter as potential tenants.  It’s now 3:45 AM, [...]

Given that fee simple, single tenant, single parcel, national credit, long corporate triple net or absolute net leased retail opportunities are as hot as they are for 1031 exchanges, buyers are [...]

I’ve written plenty about triple net, in fact absolute net, single tenant, national credit, long corporate lease retail over the last few months, but what if the purchase is for a buyer under the [...]

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 [...]

Top retail and office properties have been bid up over the last year to the point where it makes sense to find another commercial real estate alternative.  That possibly can be industrial where [...]

Retail closings fell 46% in the third quarter to $8.2 billion from the second quarter’s $15.2 billion. As bad as that was it was still an improvement over last year’s third quarter of $6.6 [...]

This is a follow up to what I posted back on the 13th.  I’m not going to editorialize too much on this article from Mark Heschmeyer at CoStar News, but to second what’s he’s saying in that this [...]

It’s actually not all that surprising given that construction financing has all but shut down once again that any pickup of leasing activity means a net positive absorption given that there’s [...]

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 [...]

We’re in day 5 of the identification period for a 1031 upleg and I to find: C store with or without gas, prefers without, for 1031 upleg.  $1.2 to around $1.6mil.  Need a corporate [...]

The CMBS recovery was coming along so strongly in the first two quarters of 2011 that conservative estimates were $35 – $40 billion and some predictions as high as $50 – 55 billion in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, regarding the commercial real estate side of this business: we were clipping along pretty well and then month after month of anemic job growth numbers, downward revisions to GDP for the [...]

$15 billion in sales for the second quarter, still a fraction of the peak back in 2007, brought the first half total to $24.5 billion according to CoStar Group data. Average price per unit [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]