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Steve Marcinuk
04 Nov 2025

The land market in Phoenix is experiencing a significant supply-demand imbalance, creating challenges for developers while benefiting cash-rich landowners, according to Alex Bluth, Vice President of Investments at Menlo Group Commercial Real Estate. In a recent interview, Bluth explained how this dynamic is reshaping development economics across the metro area. “Land is really tricky in ...

Steve Marcinuk
04 Nov 2025

The commercial real estate industry has seen a surge of AI-powered tools that claim to transform how professionals handle documents and data. Yet, according to Oded Noy, Chief Technology Officer at Crexi, most of these solutions overlook a key aspect of user behavior that is hindering widespread adoption. “Chat is awesome, but cannot be where ...

Steve Marcinuk
04 Nov 2025

The commercial real estate industry, long focused on extracting data from documents, is on the verge of a major shift as artificial intelligence advances. Oded Noy, Chief Technology Officer at Crexi, predicts that the next phase of AI development will center on document generation, fundamentally changing real estate workflows. “If the last five years were ...

Steve Marcinuk
01 Nov 2025

The lines between traditional hotels and short-term rentals are rapidly blurring, according to Guesty CFO Gil Vassoly, who points to a surprising evolution in hospitality operations. “There are contactless hotels now where there’s no one. You book it online, you get access key, go in, communicate with the chatbot, and everything happens automatically. This is ...

Steve Marcinuk
31 Oct 2025

The wine country real estate market in California is facing significant challenges that threaten the industry’s traditional structure, according to Daria Walker, Principal at Walker Realty Capital. In a recent interview, Walker outlined the main obstacles affecting the wine country landscape and raised concerns about potential consolidation. “The listings aren’t moving, because I think that ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Oct 2025

Short-term rentals are transforming from community concern to economic catalyst, according to Guesty CFO Gil Vassoly, who argues the sector creates ripple effects of prosperity throughout local neighborhoods. “Short-term rentals are actually a way to uplift the entire community, not just financially, but creating this atmosphere,” Vassoly says, pointing to emerging data on visitor behavior. ...

Rudi Davis
25 Oct 2025

A significant but largely overlooked shift is impacting commercial real estate as CVS and Walgreens properties hit the market in large numbers, according to Eric Proos, co-founder of Next Era Legal. The trend is not only about the volume of pharmacy closures, but also the innovative ways these sites are being repurposed by investors. “We’re ...

Rudi Davis
21 Oct 2025

While market reports and economic headlines swing between optimism and doom, one veteran commercial real estate broker argues that success depends more on daily discipline than trying to time market cycles. “You hear a lot of reports and everything in your inbox, and it’s, you know, one day, it’s a good outlook. The next day, ...

Rudi Davis
20 Oct 2025

In today’s challenging commercial real estate environment, success increasingly depends on proactive relationship building rather than traditional marketing approaches, according to Matthew Antonis of Friend Commercial Real Estate. “My broker always says it’s about direct communication, not passive marketing,” Antonis explains. “We’re not grab a listing and sit on it. We believe in constant communication, ...

Rudi Davis
19 Oct 2025

A massive wave of loan maturities is about to hit the Los Angeles commercial real estate market, with potentially transformative implications for property sales, according to Anna Kampling, First Vice President at CBRE. “From 2025 to 2030 in all asset classes, in Los Angeles, there’s 146.8 billion in loans,” Kampling reveals, outlining a staggering volume ...

Rudi Davis
18 Oct 2025

Mike Pierle, Chief Operating Officer of Construction at Clayco, says the booming data center construction market faces two critical constraints that could derail its explosive growth trajectory – and neither one has an easy fix. “The two predominant limitations that I see are the level of power, where do we stand as a country to ...

Rudi Davis
17 Oct 2025

The return on investment from modern meeting documentation technology in commercial real estate goes far beyond simple efficiency gains, according to Gary Tremaine, Senior Vice President of Retail Services at Dickson Commercial Group, who sees these tools as transforming the entire business model. “The return on investment from implementing modern meeting documentation technology isn’t just ...

Rudi Davis
15 Oct 2025

Industry veteran argues independent brokers are being sidelined at public companies in favor of predictable revenue streams The commercial real estate industry is witnessing a fundamental shift in brokerage models, with major firms increasingly prioritizing corporate services over traditional broker-led business, according to Eric Paulsen, Chief Operating Officer of Kidder Mathews. The Broker-Corporate Divide “Our ...

Rudi Davis
09 Oct 2025

Josh Luchs, Executive Vice President at Kidder Mathews, argues that his unconventional path from NFL player representation to commercial real estate has given him unique insights into closing complex property deals. The Art of Managing Expectations “Managing people’s expectations throughout a process with apartment owners as the market shifts is much like working with an ...

Rudi Davis
03 Oct 2025

Industry veteran highlights how outdated paper documentation puts building safety at risk, advocating for mobile-first emergency response systems. The difference between minor incident and major disaster often comes down to response time, according to facility management expert David Trask. Yet many buildings still rely on paper documentation scattered across multiple locations, creating dangerous delays during ...