California’s commercial property shortage is making investors desperate
Desperation has increasingly pushed investors to accept unfavorable terms and lower cap rates in 2022.
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Category: Investment
Why California investors are turning to build-to-rent
The build-to-rent trend might work in California when investors consider these factors.
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Zillow Offers’ failure is a warning to today’s speculators
Real estate giant Zillow entered a hot and unpredictable housing market as a speculator experimenting with iBuying and got burned, reporting a total net loss of $530 million in 2021.
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Rentals: the future of California real estate?
Rentals are the popular homeownership alternative for young adults.
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Warehousing costs skyrocket as pandemic shortages drag on
The economic fallout of the pandemic threatens to linger — especially in the commercial market.
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2022 commercial market to be led by industrial and conversions
While office and retail both experienced increased vacancies in 2021, industrial vacancies have hit historic lows.
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2021 in review and a forecast for 2022 and beyond
Catch up on 2021’s biggest real estate stories and read firsttuesday’s forecast for 2022 and beyond.
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Form-of-the-Week: Guarantee Agreement for Rental or Lease — Form 553-1
A lease guarantee commits the individual who signs it to pay the landlord throughout the duration of the lease. Since this agreement carries a significant financial risk, a commercial tenant may want to seek alternative negotiation tactics to get around signing the personal guarantee.
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Zillow exits home flipping after getting burned in hot market
Zillow’s large-scale flipping scheme was bound to fail.
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Investor home purchase share at an all-time high in 2021
Investor market shares are hitting record highs in Q3 2021. Find out what this means for investors across California.
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Form-of-the-Week: Tenant Lease Worksheet and Offer to Lease – Forms 555 and 556
A leasing agent uses RPI Form 555 to understand a commercial tenant’s reasons for relocating and RPI Form 556 to prepare an offer which becomes binding when accepted by the landlord of the commercial property.
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Decline meets optimism in SoCal commercial real estate markets
While the seas have calmed following the steep losses of the 2020 recession, the 2021 commercial...
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China’s looming real estate crisis casts a shadow in California
The impact on consumer confidence in the Chinese real estate market and global financial markets will continue to be significant.
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The long-term decline in California real estate investors
Not a single California metro area made the top ten for domestic investor homebuying in 2020.
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Brokerage Reminder: Know the bottom line for investment properties
A weekly reminder to stay on top of your practice from first tuesday’s in-house broker!
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Industrial properties pull ahead in K-shaped recovery
Industrial real estate has enjoyed rapid growth in 2021 and it’s not running out of steam anytime soon.
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Investing: Stocks or real estate?
Where to park your cash? It depends on how long you’re going to park it for – and what types of risks you’re willing to take.
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Form-of-the-Week: The Annual Property Operating Data Sheet (APOD) and Tenant’s Operating Expense Profile – Forms 352 and 562
RPI Forms 352 and 562 discloses income and expense figures on the operation of an income-producing property and provides tenants with the total costs of leasing a space.
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Investors are diving back into real estate
This “splurge surge” has impacted asset prices of all types, including real estate.
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Attornment clauses in nonresidential leases
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