Posts by Sarah Hafner

Today real estate seems easy. Put your property online, receive dozens of offers, pick the one that is $25k -$100k over asking price with no contingencies and BOOM, your property is sold. You can probably guess that this is not the case for commercial real estate. But what is very transferable from residential real estate to commercial real…

If you ask any commercial broker or agent they will tell you commercial real estate is different than residential. It is almost a cliche.  When hiring a residential real estate agent, it is much simpler and potentially more straightforward on who you are hiring. When you hire a residential agent, you can easily see how…

Disclose or Not to Disclose In commercial real estate, sometimes sellers are hesitant to share their property’s location when creating public marketing. This can happen because they own a business and don’t want to cause concern to clients or decrease sales or, if they own a multifamily property, they don’t want to alarm tenants. The…

To most people looking around at the American housing market, they see it is as robust as ever.  With people putting their house on the market and receiving multiple offers of $20k, $50k, even $100k over list price, it leaves people scratching their heads as we enter year two of the Covid economy.  How can…

The real estate market continues to be strong due to low interest rates and little inventory which drives up prices.  The commercial real estate market varies substantially by location and product type. One of the few constants in the market that seem to be remaining strong is storage facilities. With extreme volatility in other financial markets…

When the government shuts things down, it clobbers the small guys, when the Wal-Marts get to stay open! Who are the winners and losers at this point of the COVID-19 Pandemic? What are the forces pushing the scales? Is this a long-term trend, and will the winners and losers stay the same as we continue…

Where is the focus of most investors today? It appears that the focus has been more concentrated on the CAP rate rather than the IRR. Why is this? One would think that the IRR would hold a substantially higher place in the investors arsenal of analysis tools than it appears to be at this point…

In a series of articles over the last month or so, there has been quite a bit of speculation as to the discussions between Simon Malls and Amazon to potentially lease long-vacant Sears & JC Penney Stores, and other large box former retail stores as last mile distribution warehouses. The Simon Property Group Inc. is…

A 1031 exchange gets its name from Section 1031 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, which allows you to defer paying capital gains taxes when you sell an investment property and reinvest the proceeds from the sale within certain time limits in a property or properties of like kind and equal or greater value. There…

While the entire state of New Hampshire has seen a rise in rental rates over the past five years, Rockingham, Strafford, and Hillsborough Counties have all seen a 25%+ increase in rental rates of 2-bedroom apartments.  Statewide, the vacancy rate is currently 75%.  New Hampshire experienced a 43% increase in permit issuance annually in 2019 when…