Why Mixed-Use Development Benefits Matter More Than Ever for Property Investors
Key Takeaways: Mixed-use developments are redefining real estate investment by combining residential, commercial, and retail spaces into integrated properties that deliver superior returns compared to traditional single-use buildings. The numbers behind mixed-use development benefits aren’t compelling enough on paper or a blog. What they don’t capture is the ground-level reality: residents in well-designed mixed-use developments…
Finding Commercial Real Estate
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…
Pro & Cons of Hiring a Buyer or Tenant Agent
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…
What To Look for in a Commercial Agent
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…
Location, Location, Location
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…
A Crazy Housing Market’s Domino Effect on the Commercial Market
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…
Storage Units Are Hot Right Now
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…