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Commercial Real Estate

Commercial Purchase Agreements

Pitfalls and Consequences You Should Know When presenting an offer to purchase real property, the offer is written as a letter of intent (LOI) or a purchase agreement. A purchase agreement becomes a binding contract once both parties have signed it and often a letter of intent is also binding once it has been signed. […]
Commercial Real Estate

6 Ways to Value Commercial Real Estate

There are a multitude of methods that can be used to evaluate real estate and the one a buyer chooses should depend on the type of property they are considering and their investment goals. Last month, I delved into an explanation on Cap Rates and how they are used to measure investment performance for commercial […]
Commercial Real Estate

What is a Cap Rate?

It is rare to have a conversation about investment real estate without the term “cap rate” being mentioned. Cap rate is short for capitalization rate and represents the relationship between a property’s value and its income. It is a snapshot of the property’s performance in the year of the purchase, however, it may not be […]
Commercial Real Estate

Inflation? Stagflation? What Happens if Prices Keep Climbing?

The prevailing thought about the Federal Reserve stimulating the economy with injections of newly printed money, to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, is that inflation will be temporary. The Fed has assured us that as production gets back to normal, prices will come down to stabilized levels and this will keep our economic engine humming […]