Greater Reading Commercial and Investment Real Estate

Pricing is often a touchy subject for sellers of commercial real estate.  Often a seller will want to price their property based on what they owe, what they paid, or what they'd like to get.  Unfortunately, these three numbers don't usually have much to do with what the market will bear.  Pricing...

I spend a lot of time talking about investing in commercial real estate in Reading, PA.  I've mentioned all the great deals and explained why I think that this is such a great opportunity to buy.  I realized today that some sellers might read this and assume that I think they need to 'give away' ...

I've been told time and again that the biggest challenge faced by commercial real estate investors is finding enough high quality investments to keep them gainfully employed.  A good friend of mine used to refer to finding new deals as "Feeding the Beast".  Without a steady deal-flow investors ar...

Most of the commercial real estate investors that I know started off in the real estate business as residential investors.  As you can imagine, most people don't start off by buying a mall or a hotel.  So why is it that many successful investors make the switch from residential investing to comme...

I met with an investor in downtown Reading, PA this weekend that was selling a mixed-use property.  The property was well located and in great condition.  What was most interesting though was that the property had several streams of income.  This was a very sophisticated investor who was able to ...

What is the bare minimum that your agent or broker should be doing to sell your investment real estate?  I was showing small investment properties all day today in Reading, PA.  I was with an investor that I have worked with quite a bit, and we started discussing the range of information that we ...

Really? Nobody invests in industrial property?  That's what I heard.  I was speaking with another investor today.  He is someone I consider quite knowledgeable about commercial real estate in general, but as we were discussing a potential investment he made the comment that, "Nobody invests in in...

I read a blog post on activerain.com today that really bothered me.  I'm not going to link to the post, because it is one of several that I have seen.  The author was an agent that was bashing the use of creative financing.  He stated that these techniques don't work and that the people using the...

I typically try to avoid anything close to a rant, but I had an extremely frustrating day that was due entirely to one of my clients not reading their loan documents.  They had purchased this property and signed these loan docs quite a few years before I met them.  It seems that they didn't read ...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are lots of terms used by commercial real estate investors that often confuse or intimidate novice investors.  I promised to define some of these terms in occasional blog posts.  Well today is your lucky day, because I decided to define four related terms:...