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Can the CRE Tenant Market Navigate the COVID-19 Turbulence?
September 24 2021
Fast forward to 2020 and the onset of Covid-19, (turbulence). Keep playing until 2021 and you get to experience the never ending Covid-19 variants, political strife, and the potential for major upheaval for several commercial real estate sectors...Beware Of Insurance Coverage On Vacant Buildings
August 04 2021
When a property owner moves its business out of a building or loses a major tenant, the building may sit vacant for an extended time. Aside from enduring the pain of lost revenue and having to pay real estate taxes and other expenses to carry...APRIL 2021 CRE FINANCE UPDATE
May 31 2021
The extent of the fallout from this novel pandemic is yet to be seen, but many indications point to an economic acceleration in 2021 and the commercial real estate (CRE) market is no exception. With notable imparity of loan terms among certain...The Common Area - Specialty Leasing
March 05 2020
Retail landlords are in search of creative ways to fill vacant stores with non traditional pop up tenants.Some National chains want leases to exclude Internet sales
March 02 2020
Karl Thompson sees a lot of retail leases.He is head of the transactions group at the St. Petersburg Fla-based CRE Models, and as such, he and his team of analysts pore through thousands of pageshow do you measure physical store performance in an omni-channel age?
November 13 2019
Consensus is growing in the shopping center industry, experts say, about two key realities of the omni-channel age: The first is that sales per square foot no longer measures the full value of all stores and malls; the second is that retailers...Redeeming downtown
October 10 2019
Historical preservation, adaptive reuse initiate rebirth of older architectural assets.A Classic Challenge
August 01 2019
A little known legal tool made possible the restoration of Columbia, SC historic Arcade Mall. The Arcade Mall had fascinated developer Ron Swinson for years. The two-story, L-shaped edifice, which The Equitable Real Estate Co. built in 1912 ...BASS AKWARDS
June 01 2019
My first job out of college carried the title 'market research analyst'. Similar to most entry-level jobs, I completed a variety of entry-level tasks, such as labeling aerials, calling local planning departments to determine how many houses ...Opportunity Zone vs 1031 Exchange
April 01 2019
While the Tax benefits in Section 1031 exchanges in commercial real estate are well known to most real estate professionals, the new qualified opportunity zone program now offers another approach to deferring or eliminating taxable gain