Greater Reading Commercial and Investment Real Estate

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Commercial Real Estate blog discussing investing, selling, and leasing retail, office, industrial, residential, mixed-use, hospitality, self storage, and other commercial real estate in the greater Reading, PA market.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
I've decided to take a little break from my series on evaluating commercial real estate investments.  I'll continue with it later this week (I hope you don't mind waiting), but today I want to answer a question that I get all the time, 'Don't you need a lot of money to invest in commercial real e...
12/27/2010
Hopefully you have a good handle on calculating NOI after my last post.  Now that you know what NOI your small retail property in Reading, PA is generating, you can begin to figure out what this property is worth to you.  One of the most common techniques for determining value is call income capi...
12/23/2010
In my previous blog post I promised to explain some of the basic calculations necessary for investing in commercial real estate.  I'll start today with what I believe is the beginning, Net Operating Income (NOI).  I will present a simplified version of this calculation today, and will get into mo...
12/22/2010
Whether you're investing in a 4,000 SF retail building in Reading, PA or a 400,000 SF office tower in Center City Philadelphia, there are a few key concepts that you need to understand.  These concepts are the basis for most, if not all commercial real estate analysis.  The most basic of which, i...
12/21/2010
I was discussing commercial real estate financing with another agent this evening.  This agent is very experienced in real estate in general, but she mostly works with residential real estate.  I realized that many if not most real estate agents don't fully understand the difference between finan...
12/20/2010
Yesterday I mentioned in my blog that several residential real estate investors are not clear about what commercial real estate is.  I mentioned a few of the commercial real estate opportunities that exist in downtown Reading, PA, but my list was definitely not meant to be comprehensive.  One opp...
12/19/2010
Earlier today I was speaking with a friend of mine who invests in residential real estate.  It's occurred to me that almost all of my friends invest in real estate, but that's not the subject of my blog today.  During our conversation, I realized that although my friend knew a lot about residenti...
12/18/2010
I was talking to a would-be investor today.  He has been talking about investing in commercial real estate for years.  He looks at properties online regularly, and he seems to think that if he looks at enough properties, he'll eventually find the perfect deal.  He seems pretty bright, so I can't ...
12/17/2010
I was speaking with an investor today that owns a mixed-use property.  He has two apartments over a small retail space.  Like many mixed-use properties in downtown Reading, the apartments were rented, but the retail space was empty.  When I asked him about his plan to get the space leased, he sai...
12/16/2010
I've been talking a lot about the tremendous opportunities to invest in commercial real estate in Reading, PA.  Obviously the flip side of this story is the tough situation that a lot of commercial real estate sellers are facing.  To get properties sold today requires a lot more than putting a si...
12/15/2010
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Commercial Real Estate blog discussing investing, selling, and leasing retail, office, industrial, residential, mixed-use, hospitality, self storage, and other commercial real estate in the greater Reading, PA market.