Decades ago no one gave much thought to environmental concerns in commercial real estate. Many decades ago, people would even accept money and allow companies to dump environmental waste on their own vacant land, too. But that’s all changed. Today it’s a completely different story, and you need to be on top of the environmental laws as they…
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Charlotte Commercial Real Estate Professional
Charlotte Commercial Real Estate Professional
We’ve been fortunate for more than 30 years because interest rates, in general, have been falling since the early 1980s. Before that moment in time when interest rates first began their slow descent, the prime rate was higher than 20 %, and getting commercial real estate financing wasn’t fun. So for more than 30 years…
Read MoreCommercial real estate financing is an extremely important component that contributes greatly to the overall health of the commercial real estate market. When good, solid commercial real estate financing is available, this helps to support commercial real estate property values, as more people can then afford to buy properties, which then increases the total amount…
Read MoreThe commercial real estate market has come a long way since the financial collapse that began in 2008. It’s been a slow but steady climb, and most every geographic area is doing better now than it was back then. When everything began dismantling, financing became harder to get, and this greatly added to the problem….
Read MoreFor so many years we’ve become accustomed to the price of energy rising, so now that energy prices have been falling throughout 2014, what does this now mean for commercial real estate? Well for everyone who’s not tied to making money from rising energy prices, generally speaking this is good. It means that the price…
Read MoreThere are many different kinds of real estate investors, and everyone has their own criteria for what they’re looking to invest in. Usually people have one specific type of property that they like to invest in, such as office, industrial, retail, or multi-family properties, and then within these specific niches the criteria can get even…
Read MoreWith the pace of business moving so fast nowadays, and buyers and tenants becoming even more selective, making sure that your property stands out from the other properties you’re competing against is becoming vitally important. Whether you own commercial property right now, or you aspire to, here are some guidelines to help make sure your…
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Whenever you’re negotiating a lease, as a landlord you’re trying to get the most amount of money you can out of the tenant, and as a tenant you’re trying to pay the least amount of money possible for the property. In the end, as in any successful lease negotiation, both parties will arrive at an…
Read MoreLet’s face it…you have a lot of choices available when it comes to working with a commercial real estate broker. So how do you know when you’re working with the one broker who’s really the best one for you? Unfortunately, brokers don’t oftentimes do much to stand out from their competition, and you can sometimes…
Read MoreWe all remember that age-old expression about investing…”Buy low and sell high.” This may sound simple, but how the heck do you do this consistently? But in terms of buying at the right time, perhaps Baron Rothschild said it best when he said that “The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”…
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