What it is and how you can free up time and optimizing your portfolio Beginning investors are often told that commercial real estate...

Is the property you're about to buy really performing as advertised? There are many definitions of what a capitalization rate is in this...

If there's more supply than demand, why do rents continue to climb? Supply and demand are the ever-locked dance partners that swing to...

"Portland, we have a problem..." We've been through the exhaustive narrative surrounding Covid, work from home, and the anticipated...

In my last blog post, I discussed eight reasons why you should fire your on-site manager. If you didn’t read this article I suggest you...

Industrial Keeps on Truckin' "Ain't nothin' holdin' me back, nothin' I'll keep right on, right on truckin' Ain't nothin' holdin' me back,...

If you have applied for a commercial real estate loan within the past few years, you may have heard the term "debt yield" come up from...

Why should you invest in real estate, especially since there are many other types of assets to choose from? There is one overpowering...

Understand your tenant's strengths and weaknesses before signing the lease When you start the leasing process, you essentially start the...

Is office space the Tortoise or the Hare? It's almost odd now to write about commercial real estate trends looking backwards at the final...

Portland Industrial Finishes 2020 with Mixed Results No major asset class benefited greater from the Covid distruption of 2020 than...

2021 may prove to be one of the greatest buying opportunities since the Great Financial Crisis. Private equity and individual investors...

I find it fascinating to observe a newbie CRE investor in action. You know you’re dealing with a newbie because they openly admit they’re...

Over the 17 years of brokering commercial real estate loans, we have picked up on some patterns. Rates go up and down and are in constant...

Will multifamily flag or continue its relative strength? Multifamily assets have been the work horse of the commercial real estate market...

In 2015, many property owners were faced with the mandatory change over to a new methodology of accounting for capital expenditures on...

40 hour workweeks in an office could be a thing of the past... As I wrote in my recent Q3 office report, office investments are in a...

Take the Four Question Test Over the many years I’ve been in the commercial real estate business I’ve come across all sorts of...