Posts by Sarah Hafner

This is a very simple question that I wish was a simple rule of ‘x dollars per acre’, but there are so many different factors to consider in determining land value. Let’s take the following example in the community that one of our agents currently lives in, of Dover, New Hampshire. Here are three lots that…

Low inventory, less than 1% vacancy rates, and higher rents have created a very challenging market for New Hampshire renters. According to almost all public and private sources, the housing shortage in the rental market is as acute as the shortage in the single family home sale market. This shortage spans the entire range of product,…

The Boston-Cambridge-Newton Market, or as we call it, Seacoast & Northshore Market, is #1 in Buyer Activity in New Hampshire for 11 straight quarters. It is also the only market in the state that has a commercial inventory “demand surplus”. It doesn’t take a commercial real estate expert to recognize that this is a market…

Residential agents are required to enter properties on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) within one business day of marketing a property to the public. Public marketing includes, but is not limited to: Flyers displayed in windows yard signs Digital marketing on public-facing websites Brokerage website displays Digital communications marketing (email blasts) Multi-brokerage listing sharing networks…

It is tough to imagine that less than two years ago there were five unemployed people in the United States for every job opening. Now we have only 0.7 unemployed to job openings. This means that if all the 6.3 million people who were unemployed filled the job openings, there would still be 2.7 million open…

To figure out where things are going, we need to ask what exactly is inflation, how is it measured and what is the cause of inflation? Here’s how those are defined: Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of money, reflected in a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an…

When everyone is doing something, I personally am wired to think that the masses are wrong and do the opposite.  So when we are seeing record prices for single family houses, apartment buildings, and industrial buildings, I initially think that people might be making a mistake and buying real estate at the peak of a…

Request for qualifications issued to purchase and redevelop 88 acres for public-private partnership Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Liquor Commission (NHLC) has issued a request for qualifications (“RFQ”) as it seeks a highly and uniquely qualified, financially secure buyer/developer(s) specializing in highway-orientated commercial real estate to purchase and redevelop approximately 88 acres of prime…

You want to buy commercial real estate.  Whether it’s for investing or for your business or both, one of the biggest questions is how can I finance it? What will be the best route for me? Who can best provide for my needs? Here are some of the different avenues you can look into when…

Why is finding commercial real estate so difficult? Investors, residential real estate agents, and colleagues ask this question on a regular basis. The residential market was changed with the entrance of Zillow and Redfin to digital world. Their fight to become the “Google search” of real estate listings has made consumer efforts much easier. Commercial…