While the tax benefits of Section 1031 exchanges in commercial real estate are well-known to most real estate professionals, the new qualified opportunity zone program now offers another approach to deferring or eliminating taxable gain.

While small businesses don’t get as hefty a tax break as corporations do, they do get a 20% reduction of taxable business income.

Driven by the rise of ecommerce and the demand for next-day and two-day shipping, industrial real estate capacity continues to tighten while rents and cost per square foot rises.

When I discuss retirement plans with friends, a troubling number of them have one thing in common: They haven’t made any investments.

Student housing properties are taking a little longer to pre-lease this year.

Prices for commercial real estate rose 6.2% year over year and are nearly 30% above 2007 levels, data show

This month’s CoStar Commercial Repeat Sale Indices (CCRSI) provides the market’s first look at commercial real estate pricing trends through December 2018.

I’ve spoken before of the “bricks and mortar” retail store presence continuing to shrink with the on-going onslaught of internet shopping being one primary factor.

Sears and Amazon are each symbols of the changing retail market in the past decade, and their divergent stories might become even more intertwined.

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