Bradenton Sarasota Investment Real EstateCommercial • Industrial • Retail • Office • ResidentialSales  • Leasing  • ManagementInvesting in Sarasota Manatee real estate investment property might not be as strightforward as in the previous boom, but for the patient and capitalized investor, there are many commerical investment opportunities. Especially in today’s market where the Sarasota and […]

The U.S. commercial real estate market in June hit its lowest annual price appreciation since May 2001, according to the Standard & Poor’s/GRA Commercial Real Estate Indices. The national composite is comprised of 10 underlying indexes, which cover both geographic, and real estate sectors, and tracks price appreciation month-by-month, and year-over-year.
At the end of June, the composite […]

Friday, September 19, 2008
From the Tampa Bay Business Journal - by Steven Ekovich

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The current housing downturn and capital markets crisis have caused investors to worry about the commercial real estate market and remain on the sidelines. Despite […]

In a move that will certainly solidify Publix as the dominating force in Florida’s supermarket industry, Publix acquires 2.8M SF of store space

Lakeland, FL-based Publix, Florida’s largest supermarket chain, closed on the purchase of 49 Florida Albertson’s grocery stores. First announced in early June without a price tag, Publix disclosed in a Jun. 28 SEC […]

The combined bottom line of commercial banks in Florida flipped into the loss column in the second quarter as banks here join national saving institutions in the red, according to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data released Tuesday.
Florida-based commercial banks lost $79 million in the second quarter after pulling in $75 million in the first quarter. […]

NEW YORK – July 31, 2008 – The U.S. commercial property market will avoid the massive troubles crippling the single-family housing sector but will face hard times in the coming year, according to industry experts at a recent National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) conference in New York City.
Overall, the market environment seems […]

The Focus In Commercial Real Estate Right Now is on Finding Value, Not Growth

All right, you may call me a ‘nattering nabob of negativism’ for labeling commercial real estate as in a bear market, but the way property investors are reading today’s commercial real estate fundamentals is compelling some to revert to a traditional way […]

By Carl Cronan
 
Money is apparently no object for guests staying in luxury hotels with traditionally upscale flags such as Ritz-Carlton or Waldorf-Astoria. The same might also be said for capital sources when it comes to financing such facilities. While lenders appear to be in lockdown mode for every other type of commercial real estate, […]

Article published Jun 16, 2008
Manatee land market said to be iffy
Real estate agents say the overall sales trend is still declining

PALMETTO Palmetto developer Alan Zirkelbach sold 138 acres of industrial land near Port Manatee to two groups of investors in April for $18 million.
Those two sales represented 46 percent of $39 million in land sales […]

NEW YORK – May 9, 2008 – Despite a sluggish economy, a credit squeeze and slowing fundamentals, investors this year are plowing money into funds that invest in real estate investment trusts, reversing a long trend of outflows.
A total of $1.23 billion flowed into domestic REIT funds in the first three months of the year, […]