Understanding Key Ratios Commercial Lenders Use
Properties of all shapes and sizes are under the Lender’s microscope. Even property “owners” with long-term relationships with multiple assets with the same lender are under the lender’s microscope. Lenders use ratios, and when the ratios don’t match up with a...
Landlord to Lender: “It’s Just Shrinkage!”
5 Reasons Rents Remain High Despite Shrinking Demand The office market seems like a paradox. Businesses are downsizing, and vacancy rates are soaring, yet rents are slow to go down. Here are five reasons why: Preserving Property Value: Rental income (or potential...
Sacramento Regional Transit – If We Build it, Will they Come?
Sacramento Light Rail gets a makeover, but how will we pay for it? And If we expand it, how will we increase ridership? Will it help if Gas Prices hit $10 a gallon? In Europe, mass transit is widely used; why? Here’s what’s happening: New Trains, Improved...
Meet the Power Brokers of The United States
When I sat down to write this post, I wanted to discuss US history’s biggest real estate deals—deals like Sears Tower, which sold for $1.3 Billion, the GM Building in NY, which sold for $2.8 Billion, or Clint Eastwood and Arnold Palmer’s purchase of Pebble...