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Where Have all the Commercial Lenders Gone?

Do you remember that song from the 1960's that went something like: "Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?" Oh … you don't? Hmm, maybe I really AM old! Well, I would update that song for the current decade to something like this: "Whe... Read >

Trading Up Using the 1031 Exchange

In spite of decreasing real estate values across the nation, real estate investors continue to come up with innovative ways to make their investment turn out profitably. A powerful method for building real estate holdings is the use of 1031 Exchanges,... Read >

Survival Tips for Commercial Retail Properties

While the media at large focuses on doom and gloom, we will turn our commercial eyes towards what we can do in the middle of all this chaos to survive and emerge stronger. These tips focus on retail properties but apply in most cases to all types of comm... Read >

Segregate Costs for Better Cash Flow

Utilizing Cost Segregation to Enhance Investment Real Estate Cash Flow Everyone knows that a dollar today is more valuable than one received in ten years. Tweed Financial Services, Inc. suggests that a Cost Segregation study, which reviews the depreci... Read >

Picking the Right Commercial Property Lender

What a Super Weekend for sports! No … NOT the Super Bowl (although I'll get to that), I mean the Australian Open. When Federer plays Nadal in a Grand Slam final, you begin to lose words to describe what you see. Even the announcers were speechless, a... Read >

Multifamily Properties: Strategies for Increasing Profits

Everyone is well aware of the cyclical nature of commercial real estate, as well as the potential for significant profits to be gleaned by purchasing assets before they rise in price. In an article entitled "10 Strategies for Apartment Profits in 2009 and... Read >

Is a SBA 7(a) Loan Still a Wise Choice?

Last years commercial mortgage slowdown was reflected in the statistics for the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA), which reported a year-over-year decline in approved loans of 29%. This surprisingly high reduction in loan volume was also noticeab... Read >

Individualist vs. Collectivist

With all of the hoopla surrounding the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama, have you noticed the stock market? It has been quietly sinking as the reality of the state of the economy has been sinking in. Here is some of the evid... Read >

Going Green: What is LEEDs?

An Overview of LEED Compliance Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to designate buildings which are notable for stewardship of o... Read >

Going Green: Commercial Property Owners Can Cut Expenses with New Solar Film

Coupled with the economic climate and its recent effects on Commercial Real Estate, going green is just one of the choices available in an effort to cut costs in building and maintaining office buildings, retail stores, manufacturing facilities and malls.... Read >

Commercial Real Investment Strategy: Specialize

Folks, this weeks comments may be a bit too revealing for some of you. Im going to talk my inner self & and I DO mean INNER. But before I go there, I should mention that if you use Twitter, there a really NEAT freebie that you can use to explode your so... Read >

Commercial Real Estate’s Status, $10MM is the New $100M, Part 2

In continuing our discussion from Commercial Real Estate's Status, $10MM is the New $100M, Part 1: Regarding Institutional Investors • Most of them were out of the market for the past 3-4 years because there was an excessive amount of capital in play,... Read >

Commercial Real Estate’s Status: $10MM is the New $100M, Part 1

Like most other industries it is clear that Commercial Real Estate is in the midst of an economic downturn the likes of which we have never seen before. There was a recent Net Lease Conference held by Real Share which focused on analyzing where the marke... Read >

Commercial Real Estate Lives!

I have just completed an extended vacation that took me through 6 states. Along the way I took some time to survey the status of commercial real estate in both existing and property under construction. I'm happy to report that contrary to what the "me... Read >

Commercial Real Estate Financing: Who Controls the Third Party Reports?

Well, this weekend marked the official end of the 2008 NFL season with the NFC defeating the AFC in the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. NOW what am I going to do on Sundays??? I guess I'll have to find some useful things to occupy my time … like tennis, martial a... Read >