A section of the Q&A session from the commercial real estate investment seminar we have organized that gives a rapid overview of how a commercial short sale is being negotiated on a high level. Find out how you can make between $ 100,000 and $ 150,000 for just doing the negotiation and how you can [...]

Investors from Europe are coming back, but they select their markets very carefully. They are only looking at gateway cities like: Washington DC, New York, Boston, not Atlanta. They are looking some in Miami because of the industrial base. But they don’t like to be in a scenario where they need to compete with many [...]

The commercial real estate world is becoming more complex every day and it will be increasingly common to see properties that are offered for sale which are also part of a bankruptcy. Find out how the property is going to be assessed and how the short sale process could happen in this case. There is [...]

Commercial real estate short sales are a very complex process that is very different from the conventional short sale that we know from in the residential market. First of all you are dealing with a very different type of bank, usually a local bank, who has very tight control on the loan it services and [...]

We continue the series of articles on commercial real estate investing by publishing two new videos where a qualified attorney explains how a commercial short sale works and how they can tie in with bankruptcy. Your need to become creative in dealing with this new market in real estate. eventually in boils down to “who [...]

Since October 2007 there has been a 43% decline in value of commercial real estate and an additional drop between 17 and 20% is anticipated this year, and probably is not going to stop any time soon, actually the credit crunch will continue probably until 2014. Vacancies have increased 40 basis points (0.4%) in May [...]

It is a simple concept and yet it will have a sweeping effect: banks are less comfortable in lending money in commercial projects than before and have reduced the loan to value ratio to 65%, which means that they will give you 650 thousand dollars on a one million dollar property provided you put 350 [...]

Banks today aren’t lending based on the value of the real estate any more, but they base their decision on the “existing relationship2 which means the potential global income of the sponsor asking the loan. If you want a loan from a bank, it’s relationship driven, that means they want you to be local and [...]

There has always been a second market for securing loans on real estate and it has been managed by insurance companies that have been providing long term funding for both residential and commercial properties. After the bubble burst a couple of years ago, all these companies suspended their activities in this area waiting to see [...]

Where is the commercial real estate market going? And is it going anywhere in the first place? George Hurst, experienced commercial broker with Coldwell Banker Commercial, tells us that we are at a dead stop right now: increasing vacancy rates, falling rents, unemployment, the resulting decreasing cash flow will reduce the borrower’s capability to repay [...]