Retail Chatr

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Tweet Nothing says "I’ve never seen the property I am selling” more than a crappy Google Maps picture in your marketing materials.

Tweet The retail investment market has really changed since I first started living the business. I consider myself relatively new to the commercial real estate arena, so every day I try to challenge myself to learn, understand, or question something that involves retail commercial RE. It seems over the last year, especially most recently, everyone [...]

Tweet I consider myself to be fairly competent in matters concerning retail commercial real estate.  It is a rare occasion when I am completely unable to grasp even a basic understanding of a concept or characteristic relating to any particular property.  Today I find myself in exactly this position.  The graph below has me completely [...]

Tweet I recently received a marketing email for a vacant restaurant building in Las Vegas.  The very first “selling point” was as follows: FDIC Owned! I see these type of statements all the time now and I just wanted to make a few comments on the matter. My question is simply this: Why does the [...]

Tweet This is my first post in a very long time.  The only reason I am posting today is because I didn’t really have to do anything to put this post up. The following analysis is from an email I just received breaking down a recently listed retail center.  Needless to say, the property is [...]

Tweet After marketing a what I knew would be a very attractive Southern California single tenant NNN investment for the last week and speaking with many brokers & principals on about the opportunity, it has become readily apparent that a large percentage of the active buyers in today’s market are applying their same arbitrary return [...]

Tweet I just noticed this just published press release with a sole purpose of announcing the promotion of a CRE broker at a local CRE brokerage company from Vice President to Senior Vice President.  I have already posted my thoughts on titles at CRE brokerages.  Needless to say, I think they are meaningless.

Tweet In a post on the CRE blog Agent Genius this past Monday morning, author Duke Long listed what he believes are 32 key commercial real estate sites with which everyone should be familiar.  Notably absent from Duke’s list is CoStar.  No big deal.  Unless you work for CoStar, that is.  A CoStar employee named [...]

Tweet I have been asked by more than a handful of friends and colleagues to write a post on a specific listing in Simi Valley, CA that was recently brought to market by CBRE. I decided to put my thoughts in writing and attempt to explain how exactly I would break this particular deal down [...]

Tweet Yesterday, John Reeder wrote a post on Marketwise titled "There’s No Debt Available, Even for Good Deals."  In the post he pokes fun at the masses crying about the lack of available debt and makes the point that the only reason they can’t get debt is because the deals suck.  This may be true [...]

Tweet The Phoenix Business Journal published a not-so-surprising article this past Friday about the state of retail shopping centers in the Phoenix MSA.  The article paints a dismal picture for the state of retail in Phoenix. According to David Wetta, director of Marcus & Millichap’s national retail group, there are 1,753 retail properties in the [...]

Tweet Have you ever given any thought to the relevance of individual titles at commercial real estate brokerage companies? There are numerous different titles that companies bestow on their agents. I have always wondered what they mean and why they actually exist being that brokerage companies are just about the most horizontally intergrated businesses of [...]

Tweet Andrew Zezas, author of the blog Corporate Advisor recently published a post about a couple of brokers operating on the wrong side of the line.  You can read his post here.  In this day and age, how does someone think they can get away with shady practices without being called out in a very [...]

Tweet That is a pretty broad question.  I can’t say for sure for every single product type nor do I really care about CAP Rate trends for multi-tenant office/industrial/multi-family/etc. buildings in the midwest/south/east/etc.  I can make an intelligent guess and say no, CAP Rates are not heading back down, they are continuing to rise – [...]