by grsgrouptest | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog
Colliers had some good news with its fourth-quarter reports on two sectors of the Phoenix commercial real estate market: retail and industrial. Vacancy rates for both property types are apparently decreasing. On the retail front, Colliers says Phoenix retail vacancy...
by grsgrouptest | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog
Last week I attended a Richmond Real Estate Group event, where the keynote speaker was John Jung, a senior managing director at BB&T Capital Markets, whose presentation was entitled “Making America’s Economy Great Again.” He told us what we might expect in the...
by grsgrouptest | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
The lodging sector of commercial real estate, which enjoyed a pretty strong run right after the recession, is finally cooling off. A lack of supply that the hotel industry faced for several years has been fulfilled in many areas, and now demand is starting to taper...
by grsgrouptest | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
Projections on the CMBS market for the coming year are being released by several organizations, and as usual, they are mixed, depending on the source of information. Last month, CMBS delinquencies reportedly rose to 5.03 percent nationally, according to research firm...
by Michael Gerard | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog
This is a difficult year to get a pulse on how the retail industry will perform going forward. On the one hand, overall, the segment has been performing well. On the other, there is concern and uncertainty, maybe more than in the recent past, about some major...