This article describes the increased activity in subleases of office space across the country and the impact subleasing is projected to have on lease rates of office space. Office Subleases Portend Softening Fundamentals Sep 25, 2008 3:38 PM, By Matt Hudgins, National Real Estate Investor Landlords across the nation are competing for tenants not only with other property owners, but also with tenants that are offering space on the cheap for sublease. While the amount of subleases available today isn’t alarming, researchers say it is a growing trend that signals […]

Interesting analysis by a Senior Economist at Torto Wheaton, the research arm of C.B.Richard Ellis about the impacts of the changes in financing terms and their impacts on values and the potential problems of refinancing properties purchased a few years ago with more liberal financing terms than those available today. YESTERDAY’S DEAL VS. TODAY’S DEAL Mark Gallagher, Senior Economist, Torto Wheaton Research – December 12, 2008 With the capital markets in flux and major bond and stock indexes gyrating from one day to the next, real estate investors have been […]

This article discusses some of the advantages of commercial real estate over Single Family investments. Commercial Real Estate Compared to Single Family By Raymond Pedersen Compared to single-family houses, you can build wealth with investment properties with less search time. Even in high-cost areas, a $5 million or $10 million portfolio of houses would (or at least should) include at least 15 to 20 properties. In lower-priced areas, a portfolio of this amount might include 50 properties. To buy that many houses would require several thousand hours to find houses, […]