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Archive for January, 2009

 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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