July 26th, 2010 | Articles, News

The Socio-Tech Leap – THEY WON’T UNDERSTAND YOU!

Originally by: Miguel de Arcos

Hot off the wire, Facebook announces that they have hit 500 million users(that’s more than the entire population of the United States!). Forget the fact that we now have another college aged billionaire, this is concrete proof that social media is the new communication method. I still [...]

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July 14th, 2010 | Articles, News

Midsummer Proof That Private Jobs Beats Government Jobs

Economist Dr. Sam Chandon

Originally by: Miguel de Arcos

Borrowing from Chief Economist Dr. Sam Chandon’s Midsummer Employment Outlook we are finally generating the proof to the notion we have been shouting from the rooftops for close to a year now; The stimulus money spent on job creation was spent incorrectly! ” The Bureau [...]

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June 28th, 2010 | News

Jacksonville Industrial Report

By James F. Morgan, CCIM
Full post at SVN Florida

The Jacksonville Industrial market has been impacted, with 1,378,000 SF added in 2009 and approximately 7,424,000 SF vacant out of the 70,720,000 SF currently in the market. In 2009 we showed a positive absorption of 709,000 SF. Rents slid over the last two years [...]

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June 14th, 2010 | Articles

TO CAPITALIZE ON TODAY’S COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET A BROKER MUST:

By: Jerry Anderson, CCIM

Source: SVN Florida

Get in front of market conditions.
Spend 5-10% of your time educating yourself.
Spend 10% of your time marketing yourself.
Spend 40% of your time with prospects/clients.
Immediately improve your efficiency/effectiveness.
Connect with a personal mentor or coach.
Immediately implement “contact management” software.
Improve the quality of relationships with 10 prospects.
Have past clients write to target prospects.
Probe, [...]

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June 11th, 2010 | News

As Apartment Cap Rates Fall, Market Heats Up

Source: Multifamily Executive

Multifamily Executive reports: The multifamily acquisition market has been building momentum in the second quarter, with cap rates declining on a national level and the gap between buyers and sellers narrowing. Frenzied bidding has some long-term holders debating their strategy.

Typical sellers in the past two years seemed [...]

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June 2nd, 2010 | News

New Distress Climbs as CMBS Restructurings Shift

New Distress Climbs as CMBS Restructurings Shift – Borrowers are moving current assets into special [...]

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March 22nd, 2010 | Articles, News

10 Tips for Investing in Commercial Real Estate

Kirk Halpin reiterates the “fundamentals” for investing successfully in commercial real estate. There is nothing new here – just a summary of basic principals that “matter” (or mistakes to avoid), no matter the economic climate. Unfortunately, many and even most, were overlooked during the recent run-up in prices and frenzy buying.  [...]

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February 25th, 2010 | Articles, News

Student Housing Market is a Safe Haven

Being active in the brokerage of student housing in Tallahassee, FL as well around the SE part of the country, I was fascinated by an article written by Jessica Ruderman,  a senior analyst with Real Capital Analytics that appeared in Student Housing Business this past month. Jessica categorically stated, “student [...]

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February 18th, 2010 | Articles

Understanding the Acquisitions Process

One of the most important parts of the commercial real estate life-cycle is the acquisition phase. I believe most reasonable people would admit that the best way to have a successful outcome to any real estate venture is to get off on the right foot to begin with. While it’s certainly possible to “rescue” a [...]

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February 1st, 2010 | Articles, News

North Florida Region’s Retail Commercial Real Estate Doing Just Fine in Difficult Economy

Francis Rentz, CCIM, Managing Co-Director and Senior Advisor of Sperry Van Ness | Southland Commercial, was a featured guest speaker at the recent ICSC North Florida Idea Exchange that was held at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Jacksonville, Florida.  Rentz is an expert in the region and shared his insight and [...]

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