When investors evaluate an industrial property, they typically see one rent figure attached to one building. The yard – the paved or unpaved land surrounding that building – gets bundled into the deal as though it were incidental. At firms specializing in industrial outdoor storage, analysts argue this is a mispricing. The land itself generates ...
National headlines suggest property insurance is collapsing everywhere. Coverage is shrinking, premiums are skyrocketing, and owners are getting squeezed. According to Andrew Kowalske, Chief Product Officer at Blitz Insurance, the picture is more specific. Most markets are moving in a direction that favors property owners right now. Kowalske’s perspective comes from the excess and surplus ...
Investors who purchased Cleveland apartment buildings in 2021 or 2022 with 3% mortgages and top-of-market pricing now face a sale price gap they cannot close. Mortgage rates sit in the six-and-a-half-percent range, which means buyers today need higher cap rates to make the numbers work, and higher cap rates mean lower prices. Owners who stretched ...
When a city converts office buildings into housing, the headline usually celebrates new apartments. What gets less attention is what happens to the businesses that now have fewer places to lease. In Manhattan, residential conversions have removed enough supply to shift the power balance between landlords and tenants, and the effect is accelerating, according to ...
Most commercial real estate investors still treat Arkansas as a flyover state. The numbers suggest otherwise: office, retail, and industrial properties across the state are running at 3 to 6% vacancy across most asset classes, according to Bryce Richardson, president of commercial sales at Brick Real Estate in Faulkner County, Arkansas. National office vacancy hovered ...
The commercial real estate industry spends significant effort tracking interest rates, cap rates, and construction costs. But a quieter threat carries greater long-term consequences: the mass departure of experienced professionals who take decades of practical project knowledge with them when they retire. A Wall Street Journal report suggests the industry is entering one of the ...
Interest rates get most of the blame when commercial real estate deals stall. But in Houston’s industrial market in 2026, a different problem is collapsing deals that survive months of due diligence: federal policy that changes direction without warning. According to Shahin Naghavi, Managing Partner and Principal Broker at Riverside Equity Group, a boutique firm ...
Loans originated when interest rates were near zero are now coming due in a very different market. For some owners, refinancing is painful but manageable. For others, the math simply doesn’t work. When most people think about real estate loans, they picture a thirty-year mortgage on a house. Commercial real estate works differently. Loans on ...
First-time commercial tenants in Phoenix are routinely underestimating buildout costs by overlooking two categories that rarely appear in early planning conversations: mandatory safety compliance items and contractor operational overhead. According to Mike Marden, founder of WDS Commercial LLC and WDS Architecture, and a registered commercial architect and general contractor, these blind spots are systematic patterns ...
AI is reshaping deal sourcing, property management, and investment decisions in commercial real estate. In real estate and private investing, it’s already reshaping how deals get found, how properties get managed, and how investors decide where to put their money. Chris Salerno, Founder and CEO of QC Capital Group, oversees roughly $300 million in commercial ...
Corporate return-to-office mandates and the practical economics of rent constraints are quietly building a case for secondary office stock that the market has largely dismissed since the pandemic. For much of the past five years, the consensus on office real estate, particularly B and C class buildings, has been straightforward: oversupplied, structurally impaired, and unlikely ...
Just a few years ago, borrowing to buy UK commercial property was straightforward. Interest rates hovered below 3%, property values were rising, and private lenders were eager to fund deals. Now, heading into 2026, borrowers face a very different landscape: interest rates above 6% on most loans, lower property values, and looming loan maturities with ...
Boise’s real estate boom is often attributed to newcomers from California or retirees relocating from Seattle. Still, the real force driving growth in Southwest Idaho is a $15 billion federal investment in semiconductor manufacturing that is changing the region’s economic landscape. Micron Technology, headquartered in Boise, is building two large chip fabrication plants in southeast ...
For years, converting empty office towers into apartments was more theory than reality. The costs rarely made sense: gutting interiors, overhauling plumbing, and navigating complex zoning, all while land and labor expenses climbed. Most developers avoided these projects, opting instead for new construction or other asset classes. Now, the equation has changed. As office building ...
Twenty years ago, downtown Rochester faced a stark reality: empty office buildings, little foot traffic, and a struggling urban core. Today, the city boasts 10,000 residential units where there were once just 1,200— a shift that is quietly reshaping commercial real estate across upstate New York. Mercedes Brien, a commercial broker with Yaman Commercial and ...
