Commercial Office Space Measurement

    “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…

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      Multi-Family Leasing Trends

      A recent study showed that consumers spend over 1.2 Million hours each month looking online for apartments. Just as in any other industry, the technology is the way of the future in Apartment Leasing.  More and more consumers that are coming through our doors already know exactly what the community has to offer.  It is…

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        Retail Real Estate Market Q4 2007

        Retailers and Industry continue to move into our area. Investors are looking intently at our region. There are numerous projects in the works. Why are we enjoying this prosperity? For one, the real estate dollar goes a long way in our area compared to other areas around our region. For another, Atlanta sprawl moves closer…

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          Multi-family Real Estate Market Q1 2008

          In our last article, we stated that we thought the housing market slump would continue through year end and start to stabilize in early 2008.  Unfortunately, there has not been any news that changes our belief.  Some of the recent statistics indicate that we may still be too optimistic. The Commerce Department reported on December…

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            Current Commercial Real Estate Credit Crunch

            Why has the sub-prime mortgage debacle resulted in a credit crunch on commercial mortgage backed securities lenders (CMBS) as well?  Well, most insiders don’t believe it is a direct result of the sub-prime hangover.  They believe it has been in the works since the beginning of the second quarter when Moody’s issued a warning that…

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