According to CoStar News, sales of commercial real estate in the United States reached $64 billion last year, which is the highest since 2004 and increased 22 percent from 2011. The price gains spread beyond multifamily into industrial, office and retail. Even commercial land showed signs of awakening mostly due to demand for multifamily with…
DQ News reported solid gains for the first month of 2013 with 16,058 new and resale homes sold in January. This number is down 20.8 percent from December 2012, but up 10.6 percent from a year ago, January 2012. It’s the highest home sales for a January in six years. The median price at $321,000…
A total of 20,274 new and resale houses and condos sold in December 2012, which is up 5.1 percent from the 19,285 in November 2012 and up 5.3 percent from the 19,247 sold in December 2011. Sales were still 17.2 percent below the December average of 24,488 so there’s still room to grow. Median price…
New data show major rebound in both commercial and residential construction led almost entirely by multifamily and single family development. Developers and builders started construction on the highest number of single family homes and apartments since July 2008. Multifamily rose 10% in October 2012 to an annualized rate of 285,000 units. Single family building application…
According to DQ News, home sales in Loa Angeles and Southern California rang in at 17,859, which is a 20.4 percent drop from the 22,438 sales in August 2012 and down 1.6 percent from 18,149 in September 2011. Although it’s normal for a sales drop from August to September, the steep drop this year is…
Retail Traffic Magazine projects that Boston, Houston and Los Angeles will experience rent increases for class A retail space during 2013. In the United States, it’s projected that Boston, which has average class-A rents of $85 per sq. ft. to increase to $95 per sq. ft. in the second quarter of 2013. Dallas class A…
Buyer need – Corporate leased triple net c-store such as 7-11, Circle K, Walgreens or CVS with 8 years or more unexpired absolute net lease for 1031 SoCal buyer. Gas or without gas is fine on the C-stores. Single tenant only. S&P BBB or better. This mean investment grade guarantor on the lease. No franchisees. However, it must…
The National Association of Realtors sums it up pretty well in the attached August 2012 Commercial Real Estate Outlook when they opine that the economy has gone on vacation. That’s pretty much how I would describe it too. True, the triple net or absolute net, single tenant, national investment grade credit tenant retail is still…
For May 2012, DQ News reported that 22,192 new and resale homes sold Southern California last month. That was up from April by 15.1% and up 20.6% from the 18,394 sold in May 2011. The median price in the six county Southern County market rose to $295,000 last month. That was up 1.7% from April…
Today, I’m going to take a look at the preferred type of product for most of my buyers, and frankly for most buyers on the market these days, and that is triple net or absolute net, single tenant, single parcel, corporate leased retail. We’re talking the Wal-Mart’s, Kohl’s on the large end. Walgreens and CVSs…
For April 2012, DQ News reported that 19,284 new and resale homes sold Southern California last month. That was down from March by 3.4% and up 5.1% from the 18,344 sold in April 2011. April’s median price was $290,000 for southern California, which is up 3.6% from $280,000 in March, and also up 3.6% from…
Randyl Drummer with CoStar News reports that the rebound in office type jobs is becoming strong enough that we could see rent growth in the near future. The growth spreading to smaller businesses and secondary markets coupled with positive absorption and little new supply coming on the market will lead to rent growth over the…
First quarter 2012 softened a bit as compared to fourth quarter 2011, but net absorption remained positive according to Mark Heschmeyer of CoStar news. Plus, a mild slowdown in the rate of recovery is balanced by the lack of new commercial space coming out of the ground so as a result, vacancy rates are still…
As many of us are aware, unless congress takes action, the top tax rate of dividends will increase from the current 15% to 43.4% next year. That’s a top ordinary income rate of 39.5% plus the 3.8% on investment income as part of Obamacare passed in 2009. Another good reason for commercial real estate and…
As primary markets get ridiculously overpriced and the much preferred single tenant, triple net or absolute net corporate leased retail properties more and more unavailable, investor focus is shifting to secondary markets such as this one, Columbus, and Seattle Dallas, Phoenix and even Detroit. Solid deals are around in these markets and with interest rates…
DQ News reported that 15,573 new and resale homes sold Southern California in February 2012. That was up from January by 7.2% and up 8.4% from February 2011. Plus it was the best February since 2007. The increase in sales between January and February was larger than usual. On average, sales have risen 1.1 percent…
CoStar’s monthly National Composite Index of Commercial Real Estate posted gains in eight of the last nine months for January 2012. True, it’s March 15, 2012, but it takes them around 45 days to get the numbers out to us. With the gain in January the national composite index is now 1.9% above January last year….
I read an update from the 1031 exchange specialist, Steve Rosansky, regarding increased inflation in the near future and using commercial investment real estate as a hedge. We’re starting to see the signs of increased inflation with commodity prices up about 7% in the last year and food prices up 20% in the same period. …
It’s a mix of both moderately good news and some bad news. Starting with the bad news is that we had a major drop off in construction and development funding from $321 billion last to $240 billion this year. I was pretty optimistic back during the second and third week of January when I was…
Randyl Drummer of CoStar News wrote an interesting article on adaptive reuse, and primarily of surplus U.S. government property. Since construction financing is still very difficult to obtain and there’s a bunch of surplus GSA properties around, much of it in primary or strong secondary markets, it makes much sense to look at creative uses for…