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Calculating Break-Even Occupancy

Stress-test your investment, before you get stressed out of your investment. Before acquiring a commercial investment property, you will...

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The Hidden Numbers of Operating Leverage

Growth rates in operating leverage can hide a bad deal, like magic! I was recently on a trip to Oklahoma City and stayed with my aunt and...

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Market Cycles on Leasing and Valuation -Part 1

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra This will be the first part of a series dedicated to...

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Why CRE Lags Behind the Business Cycle?

We're out of the woods, right? RIGHT? We have seen investors in the past point to commercial real estate's resilience during economic...

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The Lies We Tell Ourselves

"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree." - Michael Crichton...

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IRR and the Partition of Risk

Here's a scenario: You just received an Offering Memorandum in your inbox for a commercial real estate investment boasting an internal...

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Base Stop Amounts in Expense Reports

In commercial real estate, a base stop amount refers to a provision in a lease agreement that specifies a certain amount of operating...

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Scenario Planning for Acquiring Commercial Real Estate

Create a best, likely and worst-case scenario for your investments The word "scenario" comes from Latin origins meaning the "sketch of a...