by Jeremy on March 11, 2010
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?
by Jeremy on March 2, 2010
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 [...]
by Jeremy on February 16, 2010
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.
by Jeremy on February 5, 2010
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.