Real Estate Premium Near Record to U.S. Bonds – This Signals Time to Buy Investment Real Estate

(Bloomberg) U.S. commercial real estate yields are near the highest level relative to Treasury bonds on record, a signal to some investors it’s time to buy property. Capitalization rates, a measure of real estate yields, averaged 7.22 percent in the second quarter, based on an index calculated by the National Council of Real Estate Investment Read More

David Repka Named to List: Top RE People To Connect With On LinkedIn

David Repka of Bison Financial Group in St. Petersburg, FL was selected by real estate master marketer Cody Sperber as one of the “Top 75 Real Estate People to Connect with on LinkedIn”. To connect with David on LinkedIn visit his profile at: www.linkedin.com/in/davidrepka The entire list can be downloaded from the box.net widget on Read More

St. Pete’s New Crown Jewel

By: Jon Reno La Budde It has been stated in advance and is very true that this collection is the Crown Jewel of St. Pete’s already fine and numerous galleries and museums. I could list them all but I will do that in a future issue. Many of us, including myself, had pre-conceived notions of Read More

Office Job Growth Spurs Positive Net Absorption; Office Vacancy Rates Have Peaked with Some Markets Even Seeing Increases in Average Rent

By Mark Heschmeyer on CoStar Fundamentals in U.S. office markets appear to have stabilized and are headed toward an expected recovery, according to CoStar Group in its The State of the U.S. Office Market: Mid-Year 2010 Review & Forecast. In its detailed quarterly analysis of the U.S. office market, CoStar Group confirmed positive net absorption Read More

Creative Commercial Real Estate Financing for Small Business Owners

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfMhco_SFBk] Tampa Bay Real Estate Broker, Eric Odum, interviews Scott Jacobsen, Commercial Banking Manager for NorthStar Bank in Tampa, Florida. They discuss options for business owners to locate capital to continue to grow their businesses in a challenging environment. While finding debt to buy commercial real estate can be tough in today’s market, there are Read More

Open Casting Call: Need a few good men (or women) to tell their story of adaptation and survival

I have been asked to moderate a panel at the upcoming Crittenden Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference in Atlanta, GA. The topic: Reinvention: Adaptation = Survival We will be discussing the fact that commercial real estate transaction volume is down 85-99% and in order to survive in this new economy we need to be able Read More