Although 2013 isn’t a blockbuster year for real estate performance, landlords across an array of commercial property types are gaining pricing control and increased rental income from their assets, according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s First Quarter 2013 Cross Sector Outlook,distributed during the Ur
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05/26/2013
Sequestration is shining a spotlight on an obstacle to the commercial real estate recovery—federal belt tightening. Nationally, the U.S. economy will take a hit from the sequester’s $85 billion in federal budget cuts planned for fiscal 2013. The forced reductions that began on March 1st will have
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05/26/2013
Baptism and the newness of life Romans 6 3 Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also m
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05/26/2013
You are invited! We are excited about our commercial training class starting Tuesday May 28th at 9am running for 15 days. The class is open to Realtors that would like to learn more about commercial real estate. The cost is FREE but we ask that you let me know if you would like to attend so we ca
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05/26/2013
2013 Top Brokers Most of the top commercial real estate brokerage firms grew their businesses in 2012, in comparison with 2011 volumes. When looking further back, total transaction volumes—which include the total value of all leasing and investment sales transactions each firm completed globall
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05/25/2013
We consider real estate to be in the early phase of a cyclical recovery. After a hiring slump in mid-2011, the job market has begun to show signs of strength, as the unemployment rate continued declining in the first quarter of 2012. Real estate investment performance continues to display favorab
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05/25/2013
This is my 12th trip to ICSC’s flagship event in the past 14 years and the thing that strikes me every time is the boundless optimism of retail real estate pros. Even in 2008—when the Las Vegas Convention Center was reduced to a ghost town by the Great Recession and the credit crisis—I remember e
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05/25/2013
The frenzy of meetings is over. And most of the 33,000-plus attendees of ICSC’s RECon 2013 have gone home tired, but satisfied. Conditions for the retail real estate have settled into a groove. Fundamentals have ticked up. Capital markets continue to loosen. Retailers on the mend and new concepts
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05/25/2013
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- REI Wise, commercial real estate's leading online provider of marketing and financial analytic services, and Keller Williams Realty Inc.'s commercial real estate division, KW Commercial, have signed a multi-year agreement to integrate REI Wise's comm
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05/24/2013
Facebook Marketing While Facebook is typically used to stay connected with friends, family and old college chums, many real estate agents and private home sellers are turning to this popular social media channel to market their properties. If you would like to use Facebook to sell your house, yo
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05/23/2013