Real estate expert Peter Linneman has some predictions for commercial real estate in 25 years, and some of them may surprise you. The full list, based on an interview with Linneman conducted by Robin Micheli, can be found on CNBC, but one prediction that stands out is that shopping malls will be extinct, replaced by
Start-up company RealCrowd is bringing crowdfunding to real estate, recently raising $1.6 million dollars as part of a seed round, reported the Wall Street Journal. Companies are able to use RealCrowd in order to look for funding and to connect with accredited investors they may not have met otherwise. As seen with RealCrowd client Xebec
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Blackberry has been making waves in the news yet again, and this time it’s involved with commercial real estate. As reported by The Globe and Mail and multiple other news outlets, the company has decided to sell the vast majority of its commercial real estate holdings, keeping only its headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. According to
Are you looking into investing in commercial real estate? Getting started with investments as a beginner can seem like an intimidating and overly complex process. Buying something like retail space, in particular, is a significant investment; thus making it seem inaccessible to all but the biggest investment institutions. However, as Ramesh Nair of Jones Lang
2013 is now officially over, and with it, quite possibly some of the trends that had manifested themselves throughout the year. Last year was characterized by rising long-term interest rates, as well as a boom in office development and pension funds. Looking forward to 2014, The Globe and Mail recently spoke to several industry leaders
2013 saw a distinct trend in commercial real estate in the city of Vancouver. As reported by the Vancouver Sun, investors have been slowly moving away from office space to more retail based real estate, in deals of $10 million and more. Offices, in fact, lost 48% investment, while retail gained an impressive 95%. Colliers
The Vancouver Sun recently reported that Canadian companies have been increasingly acquiring commercial properties in the USA. Canada has outpaced all other countries in US real estate investment, even the entirety of Europe. This is primarily due to the lack of investments at home. Canadians have, in fact, bought $27 billion USD more in property
The Globe and Mail very recently reported that the optimism surrounding commercial real estate in Canada might soon be coming to an end. Confidence has begun to shrink as the reality of the state of the economy starts to set in. These findings were accumulated by the Real Property Association of Canada, using factors such
It seems that the historically low interest rates and greater economic confidence in Canadian commercial real estate has proven to be a bit of a double-edged sword. The Globe and Mail reports, however, that this escalated demand is causing a serious supply shortage in the market. This has resulted in a deterioration of sales across