Commercial Real Estate Pricing Strategy
First, setting a price allows potential buyers to make a more meaningful comparison of your property to the competition. If your property is comparably priced, but has physical and locational characteristics that are superior to other available properties, potential buyers will be able to get a better sense of overall value. After all, whoever buys […]
Why Commercial Real Estate?
Commercial real estate (CRE) has long been used by institutional and high net worth investors to diversify their portfolios. Meanwhile, retail investors are searching – often unsatisfactorily – for income and diversification. The global quest for yield is driving a long-term shift from conventional investments to alternative assets. As interest in alternative investments grows, private […]
2020 Will be Pivotal for Commercial Real Estate
Bridge financing is short-term financing, sometimes referred to as private money or hard money. Bridge loans are typically made by private individuals and not banks, so the interest rates on bridge loans are higher than bank loans. The year saw record origination volumes from life insurance companies and the GSEs, and the second highest level […]
Lenders Enter 2020 Willing to Fund New Apartment Construction
As fears of a possible recession and overbuilding in the multifamily sector diminish, lenders are showing they still have an appetite for financing construction projects. The availability of mezzanine loans and lower interest rates are helping fuel this activity and helping to offset rising construction costs. Even if the economy shrinks sometime in 2020 or […]
Three 2020 trends for commercial real estate
2020 is upon us! My wife and I joke the time between Labor Day and year’s end just flies by — aided of course by Christmas decorations festooning the stores before Halloween. But I digress. By all accounts, 2019 was an amazing year! As the year dawned, I was a bit concerned about the trade […]
Exclusive Research: Caution Creeps In
High net worth individuals (HNWIs) have emerged as an avid group of commercial real estate investors in recent years. Yet even as allocations to the asset class remain strong, investors are treading carefully amid concerns about slowing growth and the near-term economic outlook. The latest NREI research report on HNWI commercial real estate activity shows […]
Multifamily Investors Are Spending More Capital in Secondary, Tertiary Markets
Multifamily investors are now more likely to spend their money on properties in secondary and tertiary markets rather than in primary markets. “In secondary and tertiary markets… the number of offers that we are generating is much higher than what it was,” says John Sebree, Midwest-based first vice president and national director of the national […]
