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1031 Exchanges Given the glut of triple net retail, single tenant, S&P BBB rated or higher, replacement properties that have come on market over the last couple of weeks, we have plenty of [...]

There is a real bumper crop of new opportunities on the market right now for net leased retail 1031 uplegs. These are all new opportunities that have come on market in the last week. It’s [...]

The current Los Angeles Convention Center. although not that old compared to many in the country, is badly out of date. The convention business is big money and very competitive. Plans to update [...]

The Patrick J’s property at 2711 N High Street has been purchased by Borror Properties a couple of weeks ago. Patrick Js also closed at that time. The developer, Borror Properties, plans to [...]

Continental Realty presented a proposal to Downtown Commission on January 26th to tear down a six and two story building at Long and Fourth that are over 95 years old to be replaced by a ten [...]

FIRPTA increases from 10% to 15%. Currently if a foreign person sells United States real estate the buyer is required to withhold 10% of the gross sales price and remit this to the IRS. However [...]

Los Angeles South Park | 60 Story Mixed Use Tower We’ve been hearing rumors for a very long time, and now that plans have been filed with the City of Los Angeles, we’re seeing the [...]

The five acre Martin Cadillac GMC dealer that’s been on the corner of Olympic and Bundy for 40 years will soon be replaced by a big new seven story 516 residential unit, apartment and or [...]

The Clintonville project on Indianola formerly known as The Olympic has a new name, The Deco. From what I understand, an early NIMBY opposed to the project ratted them out to the USOC who then [...]

Not that it isn’t obvious enough already, but take a look at the article that I found today in Curb LA regarding Los Angeles metro apartment rent increases versus vacancy rates. This is a [...]

California exchanger in day 4 of 45 day identification period looking for triple net retail properties for sale or absolute net retail investment.  $1.3 mil needs to be replaced to $2.6 mil under [...]

In what’s just about the last undeveloped block between downtown Columbus and the Ohio State University campus, we’re about to see some changes.  And these changes will make Columbus [...]

I get questions from both proprietors starting a new concept and looking for a new space to lease and investment buyers looking for net leased retail properties to purchase so I thought it would [...]

Developer, AvalonBay, spent $100 million to buy six acres of land around Santa Monica and Las Palmas for a huge 695 unit apartment complex complete with another 25,000 square feet of ground floor [...]

At the link is an update from Walker Evans of Columbus Underground regarding commercial construction progress in and around Columbus Ohio for September 2015. There’s a bunch of it, both [...]

Following are some details on the $4.1 billion plan to host the 2024 Olympics The Olympic Village is proposed for the Piggyback Yard site along the LA River, which revitalization activists have [...]

There’s an amazing amount of commercial and residential construction activity in the Columbus Metro this summer so I thought I would take you over to Walker Evans’ Columbus [...]

Whole Foods is the last large tenant in Easton Gateway and they were one of the original tenants announced back in 2013 when the project was unveiled. The 45,000 square foot store will be Whole [...]

I missed this when the article was published a couple of months ago, although I’ll admit that I don’t read Mother Jones all that much. Columbus: Where the cost of living is more [...]

Money / CNN reports that hourly wages grew at a rate of 6.2% in Columbus, far higher than the national average of 2.1%. Much of this can be attributed to the unemployment rate here in Central [...]