Tillable, a new digital platform, is changing the agronomy game, both for growers and investors throughout the U.S. Similar in design to the vacation home rental model, Tillable helps solves a two-prong issue that’s rampant throughout the country’s $32 billion farmland rental vertical: For landowners, the site helps investors both effectively promote and earn fair […]
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Self-Storage: Facts Behind The Booming Commercial Real Estate Trend
Do you feel like self-storage facilities are popping up, well, everywhere? It’s not your imagination. Commercial real estate investors and corporate entrepreneurs, fascinated by the relatively simplistic industry business model, are purchasing and constructing self-storage properties at a record pace. Initially scoffed at by financiers and real estate professionals as a risky business venture (why […]
Opportunity Zones Program & Commercial Real Estate Investment
At this point, most of us have heard of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Passed in 2017 and touted as the most significant tax reform legislation in over three decades, this transformative bill did more than revamp the terrain for individual taxpayers; it also paved the way for an unprecedented investment model touting […]
Data Centers Gaining Traction As A Leading Investment Asset
The commercial real estate market continues to shift and evolve, driven by a myriad of factors including market temperature, technology development, and consumer demand. Analysts and investors on a global scale have watched and analyzed current CRE patterns that have impacted several commercial real estate verticals, most notably retail and services. The influx of […]
Commercial Real Estate Leases: What Landlords Need To Know
As a landlord, safeguarding your personal and financial assets goes beyond just securing occupants. Yes, you want (and need) to fill your commercial real estate building with paying tenants. However, you also want to ensure you’re optimizing value with every renter as well as protecting your interests. The key to a successful landlord/tenant relationship often […]
Why You Need A Commercial Real Estate Broker
Whether you are a seller or a buyer in commercial real estate, it’s important that you have the best people on your team to get the most out of the deal. Cue a well-qualified commercial real estate broker. We’ve come up with a few things we think are critical qualifications for brokers to possess and for […]
Exclusive Use Rights for Office Real Estate?
By Blake Crowe, CCIM For those in commercial real estate, specifically retail real estate, you’re familiar with Exclusive Use Rights – a tenant can (and generally should) require a landlord to prohibit leasing space to another tenant selling the same product, or allow any other specified activities that could interfere with the success of their […]
The 3 Basics of Successful Retail Leasing
Bob Young recently wrote an interesting piece in the Texas Real Estate Business magazine about how retail leasing is quickly evolving. While being highly respected in the industry, Young is Managing Director at The Weitzman Group and the 2009 President of the Retail Brokers Network, a group which Southpace is proud to be a […]
New Trend of 2014: Wealthy Private Investors
By Blake Thomas, Associate Broker Institutional capital isn’t the only capital driving investment sales up each year. Wealthy investors who typically invest in stocks and bonds seem to have a new outlook on commercial real estate. Private investors from families with a large amount of capital are jumping in on this new trend of commercial […]
Investors Ride The Wave In Secondary Markets, Including Birmingham
By Michael Randman, Southpace Broker According to Real Capital Analytics, investment sales surpassed $355 billion in 2013. That’s a 19 percent increase from the $299 billion in sales in 2012. What’s behind this boost in investment sales? As well described in this recent article, “Surf’s Up,” published in CCIM’s Commercial Investment Real Estate magazine, […]
