REITs a Stable Investment in Today’s Economy

  We’ve all worked with or at least heard of a REIT before, but what exactly are these entities, and is it a trendy activity for real estate investors in 2014? First, a REIT is defined as a Real Estate Investment Trust. They were created back around 1960 as a...

Denver, Get Ready for Spec Office Construction

Denver might not be the most talked-about market in the U.S. commercial real estate industry, but there is a lot happening there right now. This was evidenced at the recent Denver State of Market meeting held by Bisnow. Our own Jeff Coyne, a business development...

Don’t Believe the Hype: Malls Aren’t Dead

We’ve been told for quite a while now that malls are dead, or at least about to vanish. This declaration became popular in the mass media a little over a decade ago when it figured out that people were buying goods online. And editors love to make big pronouncements...

Restaurant Roundtable: Examining a Vibrant Tenant

Restaurants are an often talked about retail real estate tenant nowadays. In a commercial real estate sector where store expansion in uneven, many eatery chains are increasing their footprints across the country. In the single-tenant net-lease arena especially,...

Student Housing Attracts Financing and Development

Student Housing may not have the amount of product or gather the attention collected by other commercial real estate sectors, but that doesn’t mean that investors aren’t interested in this hot market. Julie Sorensen, a business development director at GRS Group,...