This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.primelocation.com As frequenters of this column will attest, commercial real estate comes in many forms – most commonly office, industrial, and retail. Office space is primarily […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: 1collisioniowa.com Every few months, I purge my mental inbox with a post such as this – including random thoughts from my daily commercial real estate profession. […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.duplexchick.com Last week, in this space, I discussed the amenities contained within your commercial real estate that do not “move the meter” with buyers – […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image attribution: www.djray.net Commercial real estate transactions are contractual – buyer and seller both agree to do something in return for consideration – something of value. So, what […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.lysthouse.com These days, multiple offers on well priced, conveniently located commercial real estate are the norm. Unlike the doldrums of a down market where the activity […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution:www.LinkedIn.com Ahhh, January 2018. New beginnings, an infant year and clear sailing ahead. Rather than focus on resolutions which many of us break before we habit writing […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image attribution: www.gensteel.com My biggest fan and harshest critic is an avid reader of this column. He also is my neighbor and a veteran of the construction industry. […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: YouTube.com Arbitrary. Defined as: “based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system. Or, unrestrained and autocratic in the use of authority.” Also […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.youthareawesome.com My industry is in the proverbial dark ages when it comes to marketing through social media! Compared to our residential counterparts – who kill it […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.lancastercivil.com One of the differences between a single family residential sale and a commercial sale is the requirement for an environmental report. Also known as a […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.info.singtel.com Good bye 2017 and hello 2018! This year was particularly good to us as commercial real estate professionals. Our market continues to rock on, break […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: Original Art Created at www.canva.com The question I will consider today originated with a call I recently received. Turns out, the caller was an avid reader […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image attribution: www.pinterest.com One of the nasty by products of a seller’s market is an un-realistic seller – one who is motivated by the price he will accept […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.annuitas.com Akin to an automobile with a DVD player – a commercial building with certain features may NOT appeal to a buyer. In fact they don’t […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.jaburgwilk.com I recently authored a post entitled Gotcha Clauses in a Commercial Lease. Wherein, I discussed those nasty sentences in that twelve page tome you were […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: Original Art created at www.Canva.com As you pull into your business home, you realize all of the parking spaces are consumed – and you’re forced to […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.geekinsider.com Merry Christmas, dear readers! My wish for you this season is joy and happiness and HUGE profits for your commercial real. As most of you […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.bisnow.com This commercial real estate market reminds me of an opened bag of potato chips – with 98.5% of them eaten. The full chips are consumed […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: Original Art created at www.canva.com Recently, we received a call from a dear client – they’re all dear by the way. When we constructed his lease […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.pondstopocket.co.uk Our commercial real estate market has progressed to the point of absurdity – in many instances. Six full priced offers on a new listing whose […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: Purchased from www.Canva.com Today, I decided it would be fun to regurgitate a few random thoughts as they pertain to LEASING commercial real estate. As we […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.advisor.ca Someone wise once opined, it’s a great time to sell commercial real estate – but not a great time to buy commercial real estate. A […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.canva.com I’ve advised a number of my clients recently to consider selling their commercial real estate and striking a three to ten year lease with the […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.lawruler.com The genesis of this post came from two sources. First, a very well written article in the New York Times entitled: Amazon Plans Second Headquarters, Opening […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.canstockphoto.com As if one negotiation is not enough, we in the commercial real estate profession insist upon three separate negotiations for every deal. Why you may […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. Image Attribution: www.realestate.us.news.com I’ve opined for months that Southern California is immersed in a seller’s market – there are many more buyers in the market than sellers – […]
This post originally appeared on tBL member Allen C. Buchanan's blog Location Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. [embedded content]Today on THURSDAY Thoughts for Commercial Real Estate, I discuss the ways a typical buyer finances a commercial real estate purchase. I discuss this and much more […]
Finally, the long awaited list of the Top 10+ CRE Blogs of 2017! What is all of this blogging stuff you say? It is YOU publishing for yourself. Our bloggers are amazing and they get it. These bloggers put so much hard work into these blogs all year and this is their shining moment as […]
Wishing all a healthy and Happy New Year! Farewell to 2016 and welcome 2017 with our Top 10+ CRE Blogs of 2016! What a Blogging Year It Has Been! This has been quite a year in the world of online marketing for commercial real estate and CRE blogs in general. People in our industry are […]
Wishing all a healthy and Happy New Year! Wanted to say good bye to 2015 and welcome 2016 with our Top 10+ CRE Blogs of 2015! This is our way to say thanks to all of our hard working bloggers and team bloggers and Marketplace Partners, who blog with us at tBL! All of our […]
Wishing all a healthy and Happy New Year! Wanted to say good bye to 2014 and welcome 2015 with our Top 10+ CRE Blogs of 2014! This is a great way to say thanks to all of our hard working bloggers and team bloggers at tBL! All of our contributors deserve a huge thanks for […]
Wishing all a healthy and Happy New Year! Wanted to say good bye to 2013 and welcome 2014 with our Top 10+ CRE Blogs of 2013! This is a great way to say thanks to all of our hard working bloggers and team bloggers at tBL! All of our contributors deserve a huge thanks for […]
485 Respondents for DNA of #CRE Survey! Yes, you heard right, almost 500 commercial real estate professionals contributed to the 2017 DNA of #CRE Survey this year! That is an increase of 60% over last year! This year was so special because we had so much enthusiasm as a result of this being our 3rd year. […]
Just an Idea The idea of the DNA of #CRE survey began as a collaboration between Buildout and theBrokerList teams. We all wanted to know more about the people who make up the commercial real estate brokerage industry because it has been such a hard to understand facet of real estate. Generally people think of […]
Yes, it is true, we completed the first, official tabulation of the 2015 DNA of #CRE Survey! Please review and digest this historic attempt to obtain the actual DNA of the commercial real estate brokerage industry. Huge thanks to the team at Buildout for the amazing collaboration. It was our first one, so we are […]