Banks may still have a lot of bad commercial loans on their books, but smart real estate professionals shouldn’t be shy about capitalizing on them, contends Gary Ralston, CCIM, CPM, CRE, of Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Ralston Dantzler Realty in Lakeland, Fla. Read more…
Archives for 2012
An Uneven Commercial Recovery
Even as the fundamentals in the residential real estate market improve, the commercial sector is “hobbling to recovery,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun at the REALTORS® Conference & Expo’s Commercial Real Estate Forum. Read more…
Industrial Vacancies Suffer a Setback
The closing of Schott Solar tipped the industrial real estate market back to a double-digit vacancy rate — from an expected slight improvement — in the Albuquerque metro area during the third quarter. Read more…
Utilities Offer Energy-Upgrade Financing
Recently, several California investor–owned utilities announced a program that would enable commercial property owners to access low–cost capital to finance property upgrades and repay the investment through their utility bill. Learn more about the on–bill repayment (OBR) program, which uses third–party capital to finance energy efficiency retrofits in commercial properties. Read more…
