Conference Report: CREFC Industry Conference, Miami

Earlier this month, I attended the CREFC Industry Leaders Conference, in Miami. It was a strong event and boasted the best attendance this annual industry gathering has seen since the recession. This is one of the most important national meetings in commercial real...

Deal Insight: How to Complete a 21-Unit Taco Bell Deal

  Large commercial real estate portfolio deals can get complicated. It can get even more complex when you’re dealing with multiple ownership interests in several locales. GRS Group recently played a big role in the transaction of 21 Taco Bell restaurants in...

GRS Group Ups Its CMBS Game

One of the newest team members at GRS Group is Sahar Ghavami, a business development director at GRS | Corteq, who is based in the New York City area. She comes to the firm from Trepp, LLC, a well-respected research outfit, where she most recently held the title of...

Assessing New York’s “Brutal” CRE Lending Market

There is arguably no market in the country like New York City when it comes to commercial real estate values, lending competition and overall grandeur. Competition in the country’s largest city is especially strong, given the rebound in CRE transaction activity and...