January 3rd, 2010 | Articles

Strategic Asset Management Planning

Valuing a property or portfolio even in the best of market conditions is a subjective exercise. This subjective exercise is only further complicated by nature of the fact that we clearly don’t have the luxury of a robust commercial real estate market on our side. So my question is this: Have commercial real estate values [...]

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January 3rd, 2010 | Articles

Recessionary Strategic Planning

As I speak with clients, co-workers, and industry pundits, the one thing we all agree upon is that the economy is bad, and that we haven’t found the bottom yet—especially where commercial real estate is concerned. While opinions may vary as to exactly where the market is headed, and the timing surrounding any major shifts [...]

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December 12th, 2009 | Articles

Getting Your Property Financed

I rarely have a conversation these days where the topic of financing doesn’t arise as a serious concern for my clients. When the economy is robust, and the capital markets are frothy, financing a commercial real estate transaction is a relatively simple matter. However during today’s recessionary times, the commercial capital markets are severely constrained. [...]

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November 19th, 2009 | Articles, News

SW Florida Commercial Real Estate Market Will Be Slow To Turn The Corner

By Mark Alexander, CCIM
Originally published at SVN Florida

Thud! Did you hear that? It sounded like the Florida residential real estate market just hit bottom. Most cities across the country have reported a stabilization of average home prices and a number of cities have actually shown small increases. Stable home prices should help [...]

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November 17th, 2009 | Articles, News

Florida Commercial Real Estate Is a Land Of Opportunity

By Jerry Anderson, CCIM
Originally published at SVN Florida

Every month there seems to be more and more negative reports about commercial real estate. The downturn brings out doom and gloom forecasts from every direction. But with so much information available investors are ignoring important facts and assets of my home state of Florida. If ever there [...]

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November 12th, 2009 | Articles, News

FSU’s Real Estate Conference is Enlightening

Florida State University’s 15th Annual Real Estate Trends and Networking Conference was this week in Tallahassee, Florida.  Sponsored in part by Sperry Van Ness | Southland Commercial, this event has continued to grow in popularity as attracting some of the best and brightest of Florida’s commercial real estate players.

This year’s conference [...]

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November 11th, 2009 | Articles, News

Northwest Florida benefits from Southwest Airlines expansion

For those of us in the commercial real estate business the announcement that Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelley made last week is very exciting! The low-cost airline will begin servicing Northwest Florida-Panama City International Airport beginning in May 2010.  The commencement of Southwest Airlines servicing Northwest Florida will be in conjunction [...]

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October 21st, 2009 | Articles, News

Interview With SVN President and CEO, Kevin Maggiacomo

Written by Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.
Originally published at Leadership Matters

This week’s CEO spotlight profiles Kevin Maggiacomo, President and CEO of Sperry Van Ness (SVN). Sperry Van Ness is the 12th largest commercial real estate brokerage firm in the world with more than 950 advisors in 3 countries, 38 states and 153 markets and [...]

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