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Multifamily Industry Expects Strong 2011 Multi Housing News (MHNonline) 11-29-2010 Apartment Market at Tipping Point Colorado Springs Business Journal 2-4-2011 Distressed Debt Investors Prefer Real Estate in 2011 Forbes.com 1-7-2011 CRE Sales Deal Volume Returning to “Normal Levels” CoStar Group 1-5-2011 Colorado Exceeded Only by Texas as 2010 Relocation Target denverpost.com 1-4-11 Apartment Operators Regain [...]

In a webinar presented on Jan. 11, 2011, the Marcus & Millichap team gave an upbeat report on the current state of the U.S. apartment industry. As usual, Hessam Nadji began with an economic state of the union address. After acknowledging nine different problems the economy is now facing, he presented another nine positive indicators. [...]

Gross Rent Multiplier (GRM), Capitalization Rate (Cap Rate) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) are three terms you’ll often encounter in commercial real estate. By the time you finish this short article, you should have a good idea about what they are, why and when you would use them, and what their limitations are. Image [...]

Just updated! Be sure to see the new version for January 2011.   Marcus & Millichap is one of the nation’s largest real estate investment firms. Nearly every quarter they webcast a summary of the current and near future conditions of the multifamily market. The most recent one was released  on May 13, and included [...]

Commercial property values have dropped 36% in the last year alone, according to Moody’s Investors Service and are 44% below the October 2007 peak. This bad news followed the prediction by Grubb & Ellis that office vacancy may approach 20% in 2010. Foresight Analytics of Oakland, CA estimates that 53% of commercial loans due to [...]