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It’s back!  Business is cranking again and the phone is ringing.  CoStar news reports that the dollar volume of commercial real estate transactions are back up to historical long term average and [...]

CoStar’s monthly National Composite Index of Commercial Real Estate increased for the seventh consecutive month in November 2011.  I know its January 19, 2012, but it takes them around 45 days to [...]

I think 2012 will be a considerably better year for commercial real estate and an improved year for single family residential. I’m working with out of state retail buyers looking for out of [...]

Owners and potential sellers – we have a need for single tenant, triple net NNN leased or better yet, absolute net, long corporate leased retail.  We have 1031 exchange uplegs and we need [...]

According to Roger Vincent with the LA Times.  “As 2011 came to a close, some commercial real estate experts found promising signs in often troubled markets.” I agree, but that’s quite an [...]

International Retailer seeks Central Ohio franchisee for entire Columbus MSA.  They are not interested in individual store franchisees, but a franchisee for entire market on an exclusive basis.  [...]

I few posts ago I promised that I would go into greater detail regarding aspects of a commercial lease that the prospective buyer needs to examine carefully.   Without the underlying leases the [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Employment growth and rising demand coupled with an empty pipeline of new product coming online means rent growth by the end of 2011.  Construction financing is becoming available, but lender [...]

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. [...]