Improving fundamentals across all property types is drawing a greater amount of investors to value-added assets. While there are still investors focusing on acquiring stable, well-leased assets, others have shifted their attention to buying value-added properties that offer income and value appreciation and higher returns through retenanting, repositioning, and/or the releasing of available space.  It…

Retailers are always looking at the demographics of one area compared to another, to help them determine where they want to locate the next store.  Forbes Magazine recently ran an article on where they thought the 200 best places in the country were located and why.  This article was published just after tax-day and at the…

Retail was on the mind of over 40,000 people, the number of those who attended the International Council of Shopping Center’s 50th Annual Spring Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada from May 20ththrough the 23rd.   Twelve commercial real estate agents from Fickling and Company took advantage of the opportunity and met with many national retailers and existing…

As usual, Warner Robins continues to grow with new projects announced in the second quarter of 2007. A 232-unit apartment project is under construction on Leverette Road west of Hatcher Road.  The Oasis Shopping Center on S. Houston Lake Road is nearing completion.  Circuit City has begun construction at 2951 Watson between Hobby Lobby and…

WOW!  Have you been downtown lately?  Great progress has been achieved in the revitalization of downtown Macon GA.  In our initial coverage of the downtown area we will discuss the following: What is considered downtown? What are some of the recent important events that have happened? What are some of the planned important events? Why…

When I think of Peach County Georgia, I think of lazy hot summers, cold lemonade, front porch swings, and of course, peach cobbler.  But Peach County, with all of its Southern Charm, is also a thriving community.  From Fort Valley to Byron, Peach County is changing and growing. Peach County’s Chamber of Commerce and the…

In our last article, we stated that we thought the housing market would continue to slump until mid-year and then start to stabilize.  We may have been too optimistic.  We now believe the housing slump will continue through year end and start to stabilize in early 2008.  Some of the statistics that influenced our prediction…

“Give an inch take a mile… I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole… a miss is as good as a mile… he won’t budge an inch.” There are all kinds of metaphors for measurements and some are really confusing. Well, commercial office space measurement can be just as confusing. What I will try…

The second quarter of 2007 ended with total available inventory stable as predicted.  However, the choices for products under 10,000 sf have increased. This is attributed to the addition of new development in the area as well as existing space being vacated.  The preferred space seems to be Class A with 1000 sf of office…

Much has been accomplished since our last report.  Lullwater at Saluda Pointe, our luxury apartment development in Lexington, South Carolina (a suburb of Columbia), has opened and has been leasing up at a very rapid pace. We have received certificates of occupancy on approximately 50% of the units and expect to be complete by the…