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Investing In Commercial Real EstateWhat Is Commercial Real Estate?

Investing in real estate can be a way to earn passive income and increase your wealth. While plenty of investors have success in residential real estate, others make a move to commercial real estate to gain even more money.

3 Things Impacting Modern Day Parking Ratios

As the future of transportation and city development changes at such a rapid rate, developers are reevaluating the demand for parking in retail, office, and multi-tenant spaces. For people living and working in densely populated areas like San Francisco and New York City, the lack of ample parking has been a reality for some time. But for much of the country, scaled back parking ratios could take some getting used to.

The City or the Suburbs: What do Office Tenants Want?

The landscape of the real estate market is changing by leaps and bounds. Over the past couple years we’ve seen a lot of changes in commercial real estate, from shopping malls across the country abruptly closing down to millennials leaving their suburban communities and flocking to urban centers en masse.

Investors Set Their Sights on Secondary Metros: 4 Reasons Why

Last year, core assets were ranked second highest among investors. This year, secondary metros took that spot. Some argue that the cap rates for core assets and investors looking for assets that produce higher yields are the reason why secondary markets are looking so much more attractive to investors this year. But if you look closely, there are 4 macro reasons why investors are shifting monies and setting their sights on secondary metros.

3 Ways the Sharing Economy is Impacting Everything We Know

With the internet becoming a part of almost everyone’s daily lives and getting the world more connected than ever, it has quickly become a great resource to help develop the sharing economy and facilitate that sharing to occur. If you are not familiar with the sharing economy, it is the idea that something you own is shared with another individual or that you share something that another individual owns.

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Will a Shipping Container be Your Next Office?

Everything old is new again. This even pertains to shipping containers, some of the older of which are being transformed into homes as part of what’s known as the container home trend. This trend is also spreading to multifamily and even office space, with trendy office denizens putting them inside the building as individual offices.

End of the Current Real Estate Cycle?

Author: Jeffrey D. Fisher Ph.D.

Companies Focused on Cities with Skilled Workers

With cities and urban areas attracting more people and an increasing population not only in primary cities but also in secondary cities, the population in these areas is also creating a highly skilled employee pool for potential employers. Due to this some companies are either expanding and putting new offices in these cities or they are moving their company to these cities to benefit from the pool of skilled workers.

Foreign Investment Looks to These 3 CRE Property Types

It should be no secret that foreign investment has been a large source of overall investments in the American commercial real estate market. This can be a testament to the strength and favorable returns that can be found in the U.S. market. The most foreign investment in commercial real estate is coming from China for a total of 29% of all foreign investment in the country that is approximately $19.2 billion of foreign money coming into the U.S from China. Coming in at second is Canada which invested $13.1 billion in the last year.