Commercial Property
Commercial property includes retail, office, hotels, dining, banks, stores, industrial, and more. With housing inventory at all-time lows, learn how to tap into an asset class brimming with opportunity.
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Commercial Property
Commercial property includes retail, office, hotels, dining, banks, stores, industrial, and more. With housing inventory at all-time lows, learn how to tap into an asset class brimming with opportunity.
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How Risk Shapes Your Investment Thesis
The past few years have thrown a few curveballs to commercials real estate investors, to say the least. If you’ve kept your eye on the ball, however, you likely have seized the opportunity to buy cash-flowing assets at a decent price and been able to benefit from inflationary rents and ...
What’s in Store for Commercial Real Estate
Real estate investors have experienced meteoric returns in their favorite asset class since real property began its recovery from the devastating global shutdowns mandated in 2020. Whether you’re a buy-and-hold investor, a fix-and-flip professional, or even a private lender, there have been enormous and widespread real estate opportunities in 2021-2022 ...
9 Questions to Ask Before Buying a Commercial Property
After looking at the commercial properties in your area, you’ve finally found one that seems to meet your investment criteria. It’s in a great location, the price is right, and you’re already thinking about putting in an offer. But before you take the plunge, you should ask some tough questions ...
Local Connections Aid Successful Development
As any developer knows, one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome in the pre-job phase is gaining the approval and support of local governing organizations. Whether you are planning to develop a new commercial facility or build a new subdivision, your project will hinge on the approval of local ...
Is It Time to Switch from Home Investing to Commercial?
Investing in property—land, hotels, office buildings, apartments, private homes—has long been a moneymaking proposition. Of course, a major investment company or builder, solidly financed and determined to produce only the very top of the line condominiums in Monaco will have different challenges and resources than the average investor. However, for ...
Become a Strategy Savvy Investor
We’ve all done it. At some point, we’ve driven by the house with the abandoned vibe and thought, “Man, somebody should buy that and turn it into a (insert: restaurant, boutique, salon, office, remodel, etc.).” Some of us may even have momentarily considered doing it ourselves. That’s the voice of ...
4 Tips for Buying Commercial Property for the First Time
Commercial property is at the top of many people’s wish lists, and for a good reason: It has proved to be a profitable venture time and time again. The right investment can leave you with a valuable asset that you can rent out, creating a steady monthly income stream. However, ...
Property Design with a Purpose
Every architectural endeavor starts by considering the function of the building before requesting a construction estimate. What will it be used for? What kind of people will use it? This has been true since the very first structures were built. The primary purpose was shelter from the environment and potential ...
Considerations for Selling or Renting Your Commercial Property Investment
If you’ve invested in commercial real estate, you might be experiencing a tough time renting or selling your property while getting the full return on your investment. Namely, the current pandemic had a drastic impact on the commercial real estate (CRE) market, and real estate forecasters predict the pandemic-centric concerns ...
Setting Up Commercial Office Space? These Are the Features It Has to Have
There are some excellent opportunities in commercial real estate despite the crash of 2020. A lot of real estate holders took a rather unpleasant bath as they were left holding property that no one wanted. Retail made a mad dash toward the nearest eCommerce portal they could find. Restaurants discovered ...
Should You Invest in Commercial Real Estate?
For the investor looking to build wealth over the long term, save for retirement, or simply achieve a greater level of financial freedom, real estate, whether residential or commercial, offers ample opportunity to do exactly that. Real estate will diversify your portfolio and offer considerable tax benefits, but when it ...
Reposition Properties to Maximize Profit
One of the most challenging parts of acquiring a new property is having the vision for what it could become. For example, when purchasing a single-family home, it’s easier to envision repairs to a bathroom or kitchen, but in more complex real estate transactions, such as the purchase of a ...
How to Diversify Your Portfolio with Real Estate
The real estate market has become highly volatile in the recent past, in part because of the ever-shifting consumer trends. This has led even the strongest of investment portfolios to experience a few periods of loss every now and then. Nonetheless, you can considerably mitigate those losses by diversifying your ...
Expectations of Strong Post-COVID Recovery Bolster Competition for Commercial Real Estate Assets
Price discovery remains challenging. Multiple factors point to an economy that is firmly in recovery as a critical mass of the U.S. population becomes vaccinated. Stimulus checks have bolstered personal savings, consumption has surged to record levels and reviving air travel suggests that both business and leisure travelers are back ...
Industrial Real Estate: The Bright Point of CRE
The pandemic put a massive damper on many industries — in particular, travel and tourism, hospitality and entertainment, and commercial real estate. As other asset classes like office and retail struggled with stay-at-home orders and virtually no traffic, industrial real estate likely advanced even further into the future than it ...
Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID
Although it has been over ten years since the financial crisis of 2008, I still remember how this country got completely rocked. I’ll never forget the fear and uncertainty I felt back then, wondering if I was going to have a business when it was all over. We made it ...
Bidding on Commercial Real Estate
I remember the first live auction I attended for a local charity in San Diego. The scene was just like I had seen on TV: the auctioneer was speaking wildy fast. People’s hands were flying up at every number, driving prices higher and higher until finally… the highest bidder won. ...
Coworking: A Viable REI Strategy
Some real estate developers and investors grimace when discussing coworking or flex space. Some admit they don’t understand the concept. However, many forward-thinking real estate professionals and landlords are considering coworking and flex space a viable investment strategy. In 2019, Ropes & Gray commissioned a study to determine how the ...
Asking “what is the best real estate investment?” is the wrong question. The right question is, “what is the best real estate investment for me?” There is no “best” type of real estate investment. You have to compare the pros and cons of each and decide what fits you. It ...
Co-star recently reported that Blackstone Group out of New York just launched a $5 BILLION distressed debt real estate fund in hopes of capitalizing on assets affected by the lack of liquidity due to COVID-19. Am I personally worried about competing with a $5 billion dollar fund? Should you be ...
Think Realty Podcast #139 – Bridge the Gap
This episode has the information YOU need to be a smarter real estate investor! If you are a Commercial real estate investor, where should you start looking? Will suburban office space thrive in a post-COVID world? And, let’s talk Millennials – why is this generation such a big topic for ...
Think Realty Podcast #126 – James Kandasamy of Achieve Investment Group
Talk about a value-add deal! This episode is packed with advice for housing providers navigating rent collections, structuring creative deals, and streamlining property management. Think Realty CEO Eddie Wilson talks with James Kandasamy, multifamily investor and author of Passive Investing in Commercial Real Estate about his vertically integrated business model ...
Think Realty Podcast #125 – Michael Bull with BullRealty
Eddie Wilson talks with Michael Bull, an experienced real estate investor and broker. They discuss how COVID-19 has affected real estate agents, multifamily real estate, and commercial space, but more importantly, what can be done NOW to prepare for the upside of this downturn. What best practices should Realtors be ...
10 Essential Questions to Ask the Director of Economic Development
| 6 pages | 1,233 words | 6 minute read | Excerpt Overall, the Director of Economic Development (DED) has a wealth of information about their community. Below are reasons why you should visit your local and state economic department website and in person: They know their city inside out ...
