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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At the link is another of Steve Rosansky’s insightful articles and this time on Constructive Receipt.  Many of us commercial folks who have been in the business for a time have had 1031s go [...]

The recovering capital markets are helped by the improving economy and consistent job growth.  Manufacturing is expanding and corporate profits are up strongly so the spigot is on again.  Life [...]

Massive new 1 million square feet mixed use project announced for Hollywood, California at Hollywood and Vine.  Project valued at $1 billion includes two towers with the tallest at 48 stories [...]

One of the primarily keys to a robust commercial real estate market, beside lenders willing to lend, is job growth.  Everything being equal, a robust employment market will equal a thriving [...]

This, in my opinion is not good news.  We then will have no national competition for commercial MLSs.  I’m not going to editorialize much here, but I’m not one iota happy to see this happen [...]

Office transaction volume for 1st quarter 2011 is double last year at a preliminary $12 billion and as more closed transactions are verified it might approach $15 billion for the quarter.   Of [...]