Before you retool your marketing message to align with today’s economic realities, resist the urge, at least initially, to study what all the others are doing. Doing so will just cloud your judgment and sap the power of your perspective. Instead, begin with your clients: what, specifically, is truly challenging them right now and will [...]

  October 28, 2009
CoStar Group subscribers who attended this week’s webinar led by Jay Spivey, CoStar Group’s Senior Director of Research & Analytics, were provided with the latest insights on the state of the nation’s retail commercial real estate industry covering economic drivers, statistics and trends regarding the retail property leasing, development, and sales markets. Spivey [...]

Assume expectations aren’t the most important metric
Setting and then meeting expectations is about 90% of the secret to success. Where business owners get in trouble here is overpromising or improperly conveying realistic expectations.
It’s amazing how deadly making and then breaking a promise can be to a relationship. I remember working with a customer once who [...]

By Randyl Drummer
Commercial property investors may finally make the long-expected move off the sidelines and back into the real estate investment game as building owners and their lenders are forced to face the music and unload distressed assets next year, according to the latest quarterly investor survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. With commercial real estate conditions expected [...]

You have probably heard all the radio ads for low cost online storage from such providers as Carbonite. Any off-site storage is better than none, for a number of reasons.
A new provider has entered the scene, www.mozy.com for $5 a month. 
Because REA 9 is a SQL database,  you must backup the database so that the [...]

Small businesses, which have created 70% of new jobs in America over the last 10 years, have been particularly devastated by this historic recession.
The latest jobs numbers dealt another blow to struggling small businesses: The unemployment rate increased to 9.8%, the highest level in 26 years. This number includes 15.4% of African Americans and 12.7% [...]

At an all day Commercial Real Estate Symposium at the Fed, the preeminent industry experts from each real estate sector shared what is occurring in their industry. Prior to the meeting, it had been estimating that banks would not recover 20% of the commercial real estate loans outstanding.
As soon as commercial real estate distress hits the [...]

Stephane Fitch, 10.12.09, 06:00 AM EDT
Apartment vacancies have jumped to 8%. Time to invest?

Why Sale/Leasebacks Could Be Your Ticket to More Commissions
by Jim Gillespie
With so many brokers looking for new ways to find opportunities and close more transactions, sale/leasebacks may be emerging as a way for brokers to make this happen.
With state and local governments, as well as Corporate America struggling to find more cash, a sale/leaseback may [...]

Everyone loves those days when you’re able to check more things off the Task list vs. adding more to it. When it comes to being efficient in the office, there are several things that might interfere with your ability to complete tasks on that never-ending To Do List. Learning how to minimize these common distractions [...]