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Five Critical Steps for Lease Administration for Troubled Commercial Real Estate Assets Commercial real estate assets are changing hands again, and not for the same reasons we saw in the go-go days of the last up cycle when multiple bidders were pushing values higher and... Read More »
Refocusing on Loan Covenants as the Commercial Real Estate Market Slows As inflation, rising interest rates, an uncertain economy and troubles in the banking sector weigh on commercial real estate, property owners are faced with multiple challenges. These challenges include tenants not paying rent, tenants... Read More »
Essential Strategies For Leading Commercial Real Estate Organizations Through Uncertain Times One lesson seems eternally true; there will always be challenging times, and those times will eventually pass. But right now, commercial real estate and capital markets leaders are wrestling with rising inflation and interest... Read More »
How Pro Sports Teams Have Become Big Players In Commercial Real Estate Welcome to Part 3 in our series on stadium anchored mixed-use development, a concept that is changing professional sports, commercial real estate and the cities, towns, neighborhoods and even states where professional sports... Read More »
How Pro Sports Teams Have Become Big Players In Commercial Real Estate Welcome to Part 2 in our series on stadium anchored mixed-use development. Stadium anchored commercial real estate has become a revenue home run for professional sports franchises at all levels and in all... Read More »
How Pro Sports Teams Have Become Big Players In Commercial Real Estate The Chicago Bears and Arlington International Racecourse Here in Chicago, the NFL’s Chicago Bears have dominated local sports headlines for the past 18 months, not so much because of what they’ve been doing... Read More »
This is the third and final installment in our series on The Convergence of Crystallized Promote, Commercial Real Estate and Opportunity Zones. In this post, we’ll discuss the pivotal role financial modeling plays in crystallized promote and Opportunity Zone development, investment and funds and share... Read More »
In Part 1 of our series on The Convergence of Promote Crystallization, Commercial Real Estate and Opportunity Zones, we explained what crystallized promote is, how it works and how it is increasingly being used in commercial real estate and for Opportunity Zone development and investment.... Read More »
Opportunity Zones, Explained In 2017, the US Federal Government launched the Qualified Opportunity Zone (“QOZ”) Program to encourage financial investment and commercial real estate development in economically distressed communities across the country. Initially, the program’s benefits included several generous tax breaks, including an immediate partial... Read More »
This is the third and final installment in our series on Commercial Real Estate Lease Administration Best Practices. In this post, we’re going to address two subjects: letters of credit and storage space. Letters of credit and storage space are related because both have the... Read More »
This is the fifth post in our series on commercial to residential conversions. So far, we’ve covered: The history of multifamily conversions and the trends driving the current surge Office to apartment conversions Factory and hotel to apartment conversions Shopping mall to apartment conversions In... Read More »
Welcome to Part 4 in our series on commercial to residential conversions. In this post, we look at converting space in vacant or struggling shopping malls into apartments—an idea that had taken root before the pandemic but was accelerated by it—including an analysis of the... Read More »
Welcome to Part 3 in our series on commercial to residential conversions. In Part 1, we discussed the 70+ year history of multifamily conversions in the US, looked at the current social, economic, work and housing trends fueling their current rise in popularity and considered... Read More »
Office to Residential Conversions This is the second post in our series on commercial to residential conversions, a commercial real estate practice that’s been growing steadily for decades and is expected to accelerate as more and more office buildings struggle with high vacancies and decreased... Read More »
The Pandemic’s Impact on Commercial Real Estate While it appears that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is behind us, the pandemic has had a profound but uneven impact on commercial real estate, an impact that is likely to reverberate through all sectors for years... Read More »