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With the big spike in oil and food prices in early 2011, its expected that the overall CPI will spike up a bit for 2011 to a level of 2% and maybe slightly higher depending of course on what [...]

Mark Heschmeyer at CoStar News discusses exactly what I’m running into out there in the recovering commercial real estate market and that is rapidly dwindling supply of something good to sell. [...]

As the commercial real estate market gets back to whatever normal is you can expect to see the utilization of 1031s to get moving again.  So in Steve Rosansky’s March 2011 newsletter, he goes [...]

CoStar News reports that Investment grade transactions are up 54% in January over a year ago, but dipping slightly from December.  The increase reflects buyers’ appetite for investment grade [...]

Retail expansion plans for this year are up 40% over last year buoyed by 2010 holiday season’s strong performance.  Nearly every region in the United States is experiencing resurgence with [...]

The United States SBA for the first time is allowing for the temporary extension of the 504 loan program to allow refinancing of existing commercial real estate debt. The SBA will start accepting [...]

Thanks once again to Steve Rosansky for updated 1031 exchange rules and rates reflecting the tax cut extensions and their impact on 1031s.  The CRE market is coming back around this year, and [...]

I’ve posted tax attorney Steve Rosansky’s work here several times before. Today’s article is about the recent Bush tax cut extensions and the effect on 1031 exchanges.  I won’t attempt to [...]

Below is an embed video from the NAR explaning the 3.8% tax.

The NAR published an article regarding the 3.8% real estate Medicare tax that was included as part of the health care bill.  Be aware that this tax goes into effect in 2013 and has nothing to do [...]

Further clarification/opinion regarding the 3.8% medicare tranfer tax on profits beyond certain thresholds included in the health care bill.  I’ve written about this one several times [...]

Tax attorney Steve Rosansky’s newsletter arrived today and covers creative 1031 exchanges plus the new small business 1099 reporting requirements for business related purchases of over $600.  [...]

The President, on Monday, signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. The bill, which Congress passed last week, expands loan programs through the U.S. Small Business Administration [...]

This piece, authored by Steve Rosansky, goes into great detail regarding how to properly treat distressed property purchases in 1031 exchanges.   As always, see your trusted CPA or tax attorney [...]

Can November get here soon enough? “But the cost of that paper trail could swamp the small companies, sole proprietors freelancers forced to generate it. Pennsylvania business networking [...]

This is a bit interesting.  The follwing chart show where the following cities are growing versus their suburbs.  My home town of Columbus has always been known for balanced growth and it appears [...]

This is the 800 pound gorilla in the corner, and not only a big risk to CRE valuations for years to come, but to the economy in general. Let’s hope that this is not an aberration, but a trend [...]

Since I’m originally from Westerville Ohio and many of my California clients own property in Columbus, I’ve been watching the opportunity in Jerome Township, NW of Dublin unfold for [...]

This is a huge topic right now and full of risk.  Strategy of Last Resort: To Default or Not To Default? – CoStar Group I have an owner right now who is exploring those options.   The [...]