by grsgrouptest | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
Downtown Los Angeles is getting a lot of attention of late because of the many major commercial real estate improvements taking place in that area, but the Westside continues to be the strongest market in the metro area. I recently attended the Connect Westside Los...
by Ian Ritter | Nov 18, 2015 | Blog
So, commercial real estate consolidation continues. We have seen major brokerage firms consolidate in the last year, as well as some larger retail chains, specifically in the retail office-supplies arena. Now, it looks like the commercial real estate industry is going...
by Ian Ritter | Oct 19, 2015 | Blog
Commercial real estate’s self-storage sector continues to perform extremely well. Rents are rising, and stocks of some of the leading REITs in the sector, such as Extra Space Storage have really taken off in the last year. And like the industrial and multifamily...
by Ian Ritter | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
The grocery sector of retail real estate has long been volatile, but things seem to be especially ramping up right now. The latest news is that Germany-based discount outlets Aildi and Lidl are making major pushes into the United States. Aldi already has a pretty...
by Michael Gerard | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog
Here is the second part about my experience at the annual American Institute of Architects expo in Atlanta. You can read the first part here. In this installment I would like to address how building metrics have become a hot issue for municipalities, among others....