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If you’re an investor, here’s some bad news. Investors call our office, make the same requests, get a list of what’s on the market and complain about the unavailability of deals. We offer to talk through the requirement, but most say they’re happy calling brokers because they’ll get access to more deals that way.

Maybe, but aren’t you just looking for off-market deals in on-market locations?

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What’s Your Terminal Cap Rate Assumption?

by Jeremy on March 2, 2010

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Don’t repeat the same mistake that investors made over the past 5 years.  Commercial real estate investors were betting on the come–that the next investor would pay a lower cap rate–and as cap rates decompressed, or increased, values declined and investors who based their projections on a lower terminal or exit cap rate, were caught [...]

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Time kills all deals, right? Yes, but to make deals happen, you must avoid time’s accomplice, the do loop.  We enter do loop unaware and full of good intentions, but what we have is an endless negotiation or circle of discussions that accomplishes nothing except to make us feel as though we’re accomplishing something.

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It’s simple to fix the budget in Washington D.C. According to Fareed Zakaria, author and foreign affairs analyst who hosts “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, eliminate the mortgage interest deduction.

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MANSARD and Property Politics Team Up To Train New England CCIMs

January 29, 2010
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Jeremy Cyrier, CCIM, principal of MANSARD Commercial Properties and Wayne D’Amico, CCIM, principal of Connecticut based Property Politics teamed up to train CCIM’s from across New England on the CCIM Institute’s Site To Do Business in Boston this week.  The class was held at 60 State Street Boston at the offices of Wilmer & Hale [...]

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How to Get Tenants to Your Building

January 29, 2010
Boston Commercial Real Estate

Landlords are landing tenants.   What’s their secret?
They know how to stimulate demand.
Landlords landing tenants understand this secret and know that most brokers and landlords are spending time on the “symptom” and not the “problem”.   The “symptom” is easy to treat: do more. The “problem” is much more difficult: change your approach.

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Boston Commercial Real Estate – When is the Right Time to Sell in a Down Market?

January 19, 2010
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog

This question is not for owners that are out of money, have negative cash flow, can’t pay the bank, are facing foreclosure, have vacancy that is out of control, have terrible management in place, or have loans coming due and can’t pay down the debt to reset the loan to value ratio to today’s market [...]

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How to Catch a Commercial Real Estate Lifeline

January 19, 2010
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog

Have you ever heard the story about the man who rows out to sea, jumps in the water, lets his boat float away, proclaiming “I am a man of faith. God will save me.”?
A fisherman spots him treading water and throws him a lifeline. The man pushes it away and says, “No, thank  you. I [...]

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Unemployment Rate Falls – The Impact on Your Real Estate Investments

December 10, 2009
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog

The department of labor released their November job loss figures this week boasting a decline in the number of new unemployment benefit claims continuing a five-week trend…

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MANSARD Commercial Sells $850,000 Arlington Mixed Use Property

December 2, 2009
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog

Jeremy Cyrier, CCIM and Lisa Carpenter sold 1183-1187 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, MA on behalf of the John A Archer 2003 Family Trust to buyer 369 Mass Ave Nominee Trust. The transaction marks one of few commercial real estate sales in Arlington to date, but represents the significant demand for commercial assets along the Massachusetts Avenue commercial corridor in Arlington.

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