Location Advice

• Ghosting: How It’s Haunting Commercial Real Estate Deals November 15, 2024
  Ghosting—a term that started in the dating world to describe someone disappearing without a word—has found its way into modern professional life, including commercial real estate. It’s the unsettling silence that comes from one party simply vanishing at a critical moment in a deal. In an industry where every day counts and trust is often […]
• What Reports Are Necessary For A Building Purchase November 8, 2024
  Generally speaking, once a buyer and seller agree upon a price and terms of a purchase transaction, these points are memorialized in a purchase and sale agreement. Purchase and sale agreements come in several flavors—the most common of which are standard and proprietary. The AIR CRE contract, a widely used iteration, and the CAR commercial […]
• S.P.A.C.E. November 1, 2024
  Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve explored the ebb in demand for industrial real estate—why it’s happening and how to measure the market’s pulse through a tool known as the sentiment index. If you missed those columns, you can catch up here.As logistics inventories have swelled, creating a shift in favor of occupants, we’re […]
• Gauging the Market October 25, 2024
  As commercial real estate  practitioners, we spend our days advising owners and occupants of locations. These may be office, retail or industrial. I’ve plied my trade industrially for over four decades in Orange County and the Inland Empire. Over time, I’ve seen some wild swings in market activity - also known as buying and leasing.  The early […]
• Lack of Demand in Industrial Real Estate October 18, 2024
  Good day, dear readers! Today I feel a bit professorial. Therefore, I’ll discuss a phenomenon we’re witnessing in the industrial real estate market in Southern California—the lack of demand. What is demand, you may ask? In this context, demand stems from a need created by external factors. Think for a moment about your own household. If […]