Commercial real estate performance generally lags economic growth by about four to six quarters. As our firm, ING Clarion Partners, suggested earlier this year, 2010 appears to be a transition year, moving from the steep downturn of 2009 toward…

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Every commercial property will have income streams. The question is, are they all optimized and utilized. In this market the income streams for commercial property are so important to the landlord and the financiers for the property. A property with multiple and well protected income streams will more easily…

This is an article sent by ICSC referring to H.R. 5943 designed to help get an infusion of private capital to invest into commercial real estate. It is important for all commercial real estate practioners to contact your Congressperson and support this bill.

As I sit here reading an article entitled “Retail Architecture’s Changing World” in the one of the latest ICSC publications to come across my desk, it brings to mind a very interesting website that I’m not sure if any of ya’ll are familiar with and might want to take the time to check out entitled…

As the retail real estate industry transforms in the wake of the recession, mall and shopping center owners are building relationships with the kinds of tenants they might have ignored five or ten years ago. For instance…

The upside to mobile home park investment increases as the mobile home park industry hits an all time low. As communities fight to keep mobile home parks from developing within their boundaries, existing parks have become more valuable because of the barriers to entry.

I have had some interesting conversations with property owners lately about whether they should sell now or wait. One of the unintended consequences of waiting until next year will be the tax rates sellers will have to deal with.