When a property owner makes a decision to sell it is not unique to begin what I call a “two step” conversation to achieve their goal. To simply put a price tag on a property without first evaluating the current tenant and their leases is short sighted.

After three years of momentum building in commercial property lending, analysts are projecting that institutional lenders will place what could be record amounts of capital into commercial real estate in 2014.

Government statistics and the latest reports from the design and construction sectors suggest that the growing number of….

Business mergers are taking place all over the country, Louisiana and in Baton Rouge (witness the purchase of The Shaw Group by CB&I early last year).

Retail REITs are developing new projects again. For several years factory outlet centers were the only new developments the big players were working on. Now supermarket-anchored centers and power centers are…

INTEREST rates will eventually rise in the developed world, perhaps in early 2015. The markets are braced for such a possibility. But the more difficult question is how far they will rise: what is the normal level of rates in the post-crisis world?

After years, dozens of revisions drafts and neighborhood meetings, the New Orleans’ City Planning Commission released the latest draft of the Comprehensive…

With an aging population, the HUD 202 Supporter Housing for The Elderly maybe an avenue worth pursuing.

A 1031 exchange allows the taxpayer to defer federal and state capital gain and depreciation recapture taxes when selling and replacing real and personal property held in the productive use of a business or for investment…

As the global marketplace evolves faster than ever before, corporations are viewing their real estate holdings as an increasingly important factor in their profitability and strategic growth. Many directors and managers who advise corporations on their real estate decisions are experiencing this shift firsthand: 68 percent of professionals who participated in a….