Archive for the 'Commercial Real Estate' Category

Answers to Commercial Investment Quiz

The answers respectively are
$284,300
-$582
-0-
6.4%
$828,000
The Answer, Allan Iverson (now with Denver)

Deal or No Deal: Commercial Investment Quiz

Test your investment analysis skills with this quiz. Answers tomorrow. If you can’t wait, follow the link at the end. Here goes.
You bought a piece of commercial real estate as an investment for $900,000 last month. You put 30% down. Because this was a former gas station site, you had to do some […]

Skyscraper Is Bent Out Of Shape and We Love It

Central Chinese Television Building (CCTV) is a 5 million square feet reinvention of the skyscraper. Shaped like an upside down U with right angles, it is all the rage among the architectural in-crowd. Although huge in interior space, it is a modest 54 stories tall.  Truly, it’s not the size that matters, but […]

Do Not Ignore That Bawld Man Behind The Curtain

We asked “Where are all the Commercial Real Estate Bloggers“? And one found its way to us, despite being chewed up by our spam filter (bad dog). The blog is Behind The Curtain and it’s published by Brown & Brown Investment Properties, a firm with 36 years experience “helping people acquire rental property, […]

The Haunted House Brokers

We‘ve all heard of the Lutz family and their famous haunted house in Amityville, New York. Let’s say you have the misfortune of living in your own haunted house. You decide you’ve had enough of flying objects, foul smells, and nightly visits from the resident restless spirits. You want to sell but your local broker, […]

Where Are All The Commercial Real Estate Bloggers?


24. Best Time to Buy…

…anything, according to Kelli B. Grant of SmartMoney.com.
She forgot a couple of things:
1. Residential Real Estate
2. Commercial Real Estate
3. Businesses
4. Timeshares
5. Franchises
When to Buy: What do you think?

Why: What do you think?

23. Brokers: Need an Energy Boost?

We thought so. We all do. Especially all you agents that hustle so hard for your customers and clients everyday. Don’t forget to take care of yourself. Lifehacker points us to the top 10 energy giving foods.
Eat. Drink. Be Merry.
~Dave Matthews

Blog Readers Save Bell Labs: Developer Plans World Class Site

Preferred Real Estate Investments (PREI), the developer who purchased the famed Bell Labs property in Holmdel, New Jersey from Lucent Technologies, announced last night at the Holmdel Community Center, that it would preserve the two original Phase I buildings designed by noted architect Eero Saarinen AND build a Library to house & display […]

Commercial Market Surges Ahead

NAR’s Commercial Leading Indicator of Brokerage Activites for the second quarter shows a robust market, according to NAR’s latest figures, and the up trend is predicted to continue well into 2007. Now that explains the rising cost of office space in midtown Manhattan.
NAR’s leading indicator Index has been up 11 of the last […]