National Real Estate Investor Online has been conducting an online poll of professionals in the industry. As you can see from the results below, most of us believe a turn in CRE sales activity is not likely before 2010. We are still unsure where bottom is on value and, of course, any infusion of money [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Sales Activity Poll
Posted in commercial real estate, office space, Trends, tagged commercial real estate, cre, recovery, value on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who’s On the Move – Week Ending 1/23/09
Posted in building sale, commercial real estate, office brokerage, office space, start up, tagged 1 lincoln, clean room, commercial, ethicspoint, griffith park corp center, hynix, kruse way, lease, nxrev, office space, offices, real estate, square feet, x5pdx on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across an interesting report called “The Best Places in the World to Buy Real Estate” (Forbes online http://tinyurl.com/crvlr2). Interestingly, it had Houston ranked 9th overall for strong office space demand and rental rates up from $21.06 in 2006 to $29.00 in 2009. The winner is Washington D.C., who has the US government pouring millions into the [...]
Who’s On the Move – Week Ending 1/16/09
Posted in commercial real estate, office brokerage, office space, start up, sublease, tagged apple, architectural, brokerage, commercial properties, commercial real estate, lease, leased, Nikon, office buildings, office space, SiOnyx, square feet, sublease, TKO Solutions, work space on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So according to a recent report from a large, national commercial real estate firm, Portland is the No. 2 office market in the nation. What does that mean? Well, I don’t really know what the basis for the rankings were, but I would concur that our office market is not experiencing the drastic rent changes that [...]
Who’s On the Move – Week Ending 1/9/09
Posted in commercial real estate, office brokerage, start up, tagged abatements, close in NW, concessions, empire group, fibre sensys, hillsboro, kennedy/jenks, lease, loanrefine.com, mission control, office space, offices, pearl district, portland, rent decrease, square feet, time data corp, vancouver on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the new year! Our Year End report will be out shortly and will provide a good summation of where the Portland market finished in 2008 and where it is likely to go in 2009. One question I am frequently asked that I would like to address is a question regarding rents dropping as we move [...]
Who’s On the Move? Week Ending 12/31/08
Posted in commercial real estate, start up, Uncategorized, tagged columbia soft, crowd factory, gdiapers, idexx, lasso, lease, lush productions, netbiz, peci, square feet on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green News is Good News Portland’s commercial real estate market is positioned to “roll through the downturn” according to market analysts. We should see more activity in 2009 for commercial real estate because our market is performing better than the national average and real estate is cheaper in comparison to other markets in the western half [...]