Posts in Commercial Real Estate

As residential market improves, commercial real estate property managers are mildly optimistic

Commercial real estate managers remain optimistic about the future trajectory of the market, but artificially low rates still inspire caution.

According to the Mortgage News Daily, Fannie Mae’s research team has good news for the residential and commercial real estate markets.

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Data centers blend lines of commercial real estate companies and energy utilities

As data centers become popular, commercial real estate managers transform into energy brokers as server capabilities require more juice.

According to a recent article in The New York Times, companies in northern New Jersey are paying Manhattan-level office rents for smaller spaces in undesirable places like Weehawken and Secaucus for one and one thing only: data centers.

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In lieu of sequestration, commercial real estate managers optimistic

As sequestration begins and the office market surrounding D.C. is impacted, commercial real estate managers and investors remain confident.

Despite sequester cuts causing concentrated, negative economic impacts for certain regions, many commercial real estate professionals are optimistic amid other economic indicators.

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Commercial real estate: office sector sees regional fluctuations, remains flat

The office segment of the commercial real estate market has seen marginal gains due to stagnant job growth and geographical volatility.

According to a recent National Real Estate Investor article, the national office vacancy rate declined to 17 percent during the first quarter as employment numbers improved.

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Commercial real estate managers don’t need to wait for ordinance to take energy benchmarking initiatives

As commercial real estate property managers look for sustainable energy saving benchmarks, such as Energy Star, some legislators are taking the matter into their own hands.

In a recent National Real Estate Investor article, Kate Brown posits the question to real estate professionals around the world: What is the responsibility of real estate owners, investors and developers to the future of our planet’s environment, given that buildings create more than 40 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions?

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As industrial real estate strengthens, tenants get squeezed.

Industrial real estate sees dipping vacancy rates and rising rent.

A low-supply of new industrial developments are pushing vacancy rates down and rental rates up, creating a commercial real estate environment favorable for landlords for the first time since the recession began.

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Detroit’s commercial real estate opportunity: empty store fronts, lots.

Detroit's commercial real estate challenges call for another look at creativity.

As echo boomers migrate into core urban centers and abandon suburbs, Detroit’s “donut effect” is a unique problem for many commercial real estate management companies stuck with empty store fronts and retail locations within the city limits.

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REIT earnings exceed expectations

REITs see unexpected boost from malls and storage properties.

According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, real estate investment trusts saw robust earnings in the first quarter as the economy slowly improves and landlords raise rents.

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What unemployment, apartment fundamentals can tell us about today’s commercial real estate market

According to a recent National Real Estate Investor article, two of the top ten issues affecting commercial real estate companies include the impact of technology on office space and the shifting priorities of an upcoming generation called 'Echo Boomers'.

According to a recent National Real Estate Investor article, two of the top ten issues affecting commercial real estate companies include the impact of technology on office space and the shifting priorities on an upcoming generation called ‘Echo Boomers’.

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Commercial real estate appraisal values: when to protest.

Appraisal districts begin releasing preliminary assessments.

As of May 1, 2013, appraisal districts began releasing preliminary appraisal values, pressing commercial real estate property owners into answering the question, “Do I protest the appraisal value?”

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