Commercial Real Estate

Whether shopping for new appliances or clothing, many people in California look online before going to a physical retailer. The trend toward online shopping is a likely reason why retail vacancy rates are high. In fact, vacancy rates for retail stores in metropolitan...

Real estate developers in California and around the country are discovering that many of their office tenants now favor casual mixed use spaces with added amenities over traditional office buildings with imposing lobbies and strict security. A sign of the growing...

California real estate investors and regular savers may be able to help each other out by avoiding people in the middle. An investor has several typical options. One is a long-term rental mortgage. A passive investor might fund a mortgage in this case. Another is a...

Overall, commercial real estate executives in California and throughout the country think the market generally looks good for 2016 although some sectors are still suffering nationwide. This is based on a survey of senior executives conducted by Forbes on behalf of CIT...

Commercial real estate investors in California may follow the Ten-X Commercial Real Estate Nowcast. it is a pricing index that forecasts trends in commercial real estate prices using real time data from investor surveys, proprietary transaction data and Google Trends...

California real estate investors have probably heard the word 'recovery" many times since 2008. Commercial real estate analysts have spoke often about the market's recovery over the last eight years, and some are now saying that the commercial real estate market has...

California real estate developers may want to look into non-traditional lenders for their projects because increased regulation on banks and other sources of debt is going to make getting existing loans refinanced and loans for new construction more difficult. These...

The time that real estate professional spend at their desk can impede productivity and profitability. California brokers and agents can benefit from software advances that allow them to streamline their activities. For example, programs that update listings across...

The nation's commercial real estate market has seen six straight years of solid growth thanks largely to robust demand in states like California, New York and Illinois, but many industry experts are predicting that 2016 will be a far more challenging year. Demand for...

These days, institutional investors in California and around the country are holding a large portion of their portfolios in commercial real estate. Commercial properties can make excellent investments as they can generate income while they are being held and then be...