Barbarians or White Knights: What to Make of Private Equity’s Love of Real Estate

Long vilified for capitalizing on the misfortunes of others, private equity players can be heroes to commercial property owners in distress. National Real Estate Investor
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Vacation Rental – Making the Right Deal

Investing in vacation rentals is not unlike any other investment in real estate… you have to make the right deal. If you don’t, your flawed judgement will haunt you until you sell it, re-finance it or make some other major change in your investment structure. This article
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Property Management and the Amazing Effects of Coffee

Coffee is a business tool. While probably overlooked by Drucker, it really is utilized across the world as a handshake, a welcoming comfort food. It says “stay a while”. Why is that important? It may gain you one or two additional leases each year. What is the value of you
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Cheap Money Fueling Net Lease Market

The availability of inexpensive money from a variety of capital sources, both large and small, has fueled the more than $ 29 billion of confirmed single-tenant investment sales year to date. Continued uncertainty with the stock market, together with lower yields available from more tr
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Market Trend: South Florida’s Office Vacancy Stays at 14.8%

The South Florida Office market ended the third quarter 2011 with a vacancy rate of 14.8%. The vacancy rate was unchanged over the previous quarter, with net absorption totaling positive 432,112 square feet in the third quarter. Vacant sublease space decreased in the quarter, ending t
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Wall Street racks up second week of gains (Reuters)

Reuters – Stocks scored their first back-to-back weekly gains since early July on Friday, on strong Google earnings and as investors kept riding the optimism for a solution to the euro zone’s debt crisis. Yahoo! News: Business News
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S&P 500 index poised to extend streak (Reuters)

Reuters – With one-third of the Dow components and crowd favorite, Apple, reporting results next week, U.S. stocks are setting the stage for another week of gains. Yahoo! News: Business News
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Eagle Ridge Shoppes Trades for $9.1M

Groveland Associates sold the Publix-anchored Eagle Ridge Shoppes in Groveland, FL for $ 9.1 million, or about $ 138 per square foot, to Fraga Properties. Located at 7965 – 7985 State Road 50 in the Lake County submarket of Orlando, the 65,751-square-foot retail shopping center
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Single-Tenant Property Sales Surge To Record Numbers

With money to burn but still having a strong aversion to risk, investors have increasingly turned single-tenant properties into one of the hottest commercial real estate plays in the country. For the last quarter of 2010 and first two quarters of this year, CoStar Group shows that sal
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CoStar’s People of Note (Oct. 9-15)

This week’s People of Note includes the following markets: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, East Bay, Los Angeles, New York City, Richmond, San Francisco and Tampa Bay. SAN FRANCISCO CBRE Names Korinek Executive VP Real estate debt specialist James (Jim) Korinek joined the San Franci
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