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Why Would I Ever Use a Representative to Renegotiate My Commercial Lease?
By Randolph T. Mason, CCIM, SIOR, Managing Partner for Commercial Realty Specialists: Without proper counsel, one party can be taken advantage of by the other side.
Columbus’ Journey: Public-Private Effort Renews Ohio Capital’s Downtown
For the past decade, a cooperative effort between business leaders and city officials in Columbus, Ohio, has worked tirelessly to reverse decades of decline during which the population of the capital city’s downtown dwindled 90 percent, to a scant 3,000 by 2001. Today, the 2.2-square-mile-area is in the midst of a renaissance that is drawing young professionals and others to new residential development, making over faded buildings and creating new open space.
Corporate Downsizing: One Active Area of Sale-Leasebacks
Sale-leaseback activity has been slow but it could pick up for a variety of reasons. Corporations are not actively pursuing them because they need cash, but they are finding other value in unlocking their real estate nvestments. One is the ability to gain flexibility for space reduction.
Power Trends
(change in utility costs for downtown and suburban office buildings, 2010-2011) *In dollars per square foot of net rentable office area.
Insulation Innovation: Product Providers
A small but growing number of building science innovators are developing a variety of energy-saving insulation products. Generally falling into three categories, they are in many cases initially making them available in Europe, but as the prices come down, providing them in the United States, as well. Here are the details on who’s offering what.
Closing “the Gap”
By Craig Tomlinson, Director, Stan Johnson Company: In a commercial property offering, there is invariably a difference between what a buyer wants to pay and what a seller wants to receive. That difference is known as the gap or the spread.
Industrial REITs Dividend Yield Outperforms Core Property Types
By Marisha Clinton, Director, Capital Markets Research, JLL: The quest for potentially higher yield, liquidity and diversification can generally be found in REITs, which continue to be a great play for investors.
CRE’s Upward Trajectory in 3Q12
By Rick Putnam, Colliers International, Managing Director, Western Region, Capital Markets Group: The U.S. commercial real estate markets have continued their improvement during the third quarter of 2012, albeit at a slower pace than earlier in the year; multi-family product was the exception.
A Little Break Always Helps
By Marcelo Bermúdez, President, Figueroa Capital Group, a subsidiary of Charles Dunn Company: Although it has cost billions of dollars and precious lives, Hurricane Sandy provided a mental reprieve that turned down the noise of the presidential election and Wall Street.
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