boston cash flows and investment real estate

You’ve heard the expression, “When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”  When you have one formula for capitalizing on commercial real estate investments, you try to make your deals work one way.
A broker called to ask how we sold a building he had competed against us to list. [...]

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boston cash flows and investment real estate

You call investment property brokers in your market, tell them about what you’re looking for, and meet with a few.  It feels like you’re making progress. The word is on the street, you’re looking to buy an investment property with great cash flows, upside potential, and at distressed prices.  Everyone knows.  You wait by the [...]

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boston commercial real estate investment property

Few investors succeed when they make fast decisions, based on little information and gut instinct. The odds may play in your favor, but the lack of a plan that includes due diligence, market intelligence, timing, decisiveness and massive action will mean that your outcome be survivable.
Take a lesson from U.S. Army sniper school.  When you [...]

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boston commercial real estate CCIM defaults and foreclosures

An investor asked us to give him a rental rate that would quickly lease his vacant space.  The problem with this question is that it’s only half the problem. The other half of the question should be:
“At what rate would you recommend I quote in the market to lease my space quickly while maintaining my [...]

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Who Buys Low and Sells for Less Than High? Boston Commercial Real Estate

June 21, 2010
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog CCIM

Two weeks ago, I met with a couple to discuss the market value of their property that they had owned for 60 years.  When they heard that their value was off 25% from 3 years ago, they almost kicked me out of their office.  In 2007, they had refused 3 cash offers for 25% more [...]

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10 Lessons from a Distressed CMBS Portfolio Assignment

June 17, 2010
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog Distressed Real Estate

Here are 10 insights I can offer you after completing a consulting assignment on an 850,000 SF portion of a $1B distressed CMBS portfolio sale.
1. The news on the street is not necessarily what’s happening with the borrower and his property.
2.  To fill vacant space, discount your rents significantly.  Be the best place for the [...]

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MANSARD Welcomes Navaneeth Conjeevaram

June 17, 2010

MANSARD Commercial Properties is pleased to announce the addition of Navaneeth Conjeevaram to its growing investment sales and leasing team. Navaneeth Conjeevaram advises corporate and private investors and users of commercial real estate and prides himself on his careful and detailed approach to understanding his clients’ needs to deliver pragmatic solutions that create value and [...]

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Your Commercial Mortgage … a Time Bomb?

June 9, 2010
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog CCIM

If you still own your commercial real estate and you have tenants with net operating income to pay your debt service, congratulations. You’ve made it half-way through the downturn.
The second half may be uglier. While it may look like you’re successfully wading through the weeds, when was the last time you checked the [...]

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How to Make Your Old Building New Again – Boston Commercial Real Estate

April 30, 2010
Melrose Commercial Real Estate, Innovation Place

Property owners are stilling finding value in their commercial real estate investments. Those that focus on the past miss opportunities to capture tenants that add value to their properties through lease-up, low vacancy, and renewed appreciation. A situation came to our attention in Melrose, Massachusetts, where an owner was considering a new direction for his property and was looking for some guidance on how to take his empty building and realign it with market demand in 2010’s commercial real estate market.

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Who’s Getting Top Dollar, You or Your Broker?

April 1, 2010
Boston Commercial Real Estate Blog

To get top dollar for your property, you market it to the world.  A recent MANSARD Commercial Properties survey of over 1,000 investors revealed that broker to broker networking is believed to be the number one activity a commercial real estate broker undertakes to fill vacancies or sell property.
Yet owners continue to hire brokers who [...]

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