Hurricane Sandy may have been downgraded to an Atlantic storm prior to making landfall in New Jersey, but that did not stop it from becoming one of the most destructive weather events in history. After more than a week following the catastrophic...
Up to 50 percent of today’s bank branches may become obsolete by the year 2020, according to new Jones Lang LaSalle research. But real estate investors shouldn’t expect all those sites to come on the market anytime soon. Obsolete branches are...
In today’s tumultuous commercial real estate industry, everyone is seeking an edge or opportunity to buy assets at attractive cap rates or create value in existing assets. In one of my prior articles, I discussed how to create commercial real...
Over the last few months the legislators have been in a dead locked battle over the Bush tax cuts. The latest resolution allowed the cuts to remain intact but would come up for expiration again by the end of the year. This tax cut has divided our...
The National Climatic Data Center recently reported that the first eight months of 2012 were the hottest ever recorded in the continental U.S., and that the average temperatures of June, July and August turned this past summer into the third...
Cap rates for the single tenant net leased market remained near unprecedented levels across retail, office and industrial sectors in the third quarter of 2012. Cap rates for net leased office properties declined slightly and net leased industrial...
Two related plans that would spur residential development and create pedestrian-only zones and quasi-parkland in Hudson Square seem to mesh nicely and are far likelier to come to fruition than to fall by the wayside. ...
A number of today’s successful commercial real estate organizations were started by entrepreneurial individuals in brokerage, development, private real estate equity and advisory businesses. Many of these firms have well established operating and...
It is that time of year again: budget season. As hotel owners, investors and franchisees all around the country sit down to review 2012 performance and outline a reasonable budgetary framework for 2013, some very important decisions are being made...
