August 14th, 2010 | Category News

Dog Days of Summer-Market News

The Motley Fool reports that there are strong signs that the CRE market may have finally hit bottom. Deal volume is increasing as investors, and pools of investor funds, are looking to put idle cash to work in something that yield better than investing in treasuries. Even though banks are still holding significant [...]

June 2nd, 2010 | Category News

New Distress Climbs as CMBS Restructurings Shift

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

April 5th, 2010 | Category News

Tallahassee: Florida's 3rd Lowest Unemployment 8.6%

Being active in the commercial real estate brokerage arena in Northwest Florida, I was thrilled to read the statistics that Tallahassee has the third lowest unemployment rate in Florida.  Click here to read the full story on UrbanTallahassee.com.

Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2010 is 12.2 percent. This represents 1,126,000 [...]

February 1st, 2010 | Category Articles, News

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

Idea Exchange - ICSC 2010 North Florida

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 knowledge on the state of the real estate industry from Tallahassee to Pensacola, throughout the Panhandle of Florida.  Discussion topics included key economic drivers in the region as well as signs of a recovery in these markets and an outlook on what key areas will be hot spots to watch for the future.
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November 12th, 2009 | Category 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 focused [...]