Land is always a good investment for the long term. In past years when investors made real estate investments, one consideration was the tax shelter of certain investments. Now, with fewer shelters, real estate investments must make sense as a dollars and cents return on capital, and must stand alone as a good business move. […]

In investment properties, when cash expenses are more than cash receipts, there is negative cash flow. Most investors avoid properties where this is the situation, unless there are strong underlying economic factors that indicate the cash flow can become positive. • One six-tenant office building was leased out several years ago. After a few years […]

With the invention of electricity the biggest breakthrough in home and office innovations was from 1906 to 1950. During this period, the introduction of household appliances and office machines in America, ranging from vacuum cleaners to food processors using electricity, made the home and office life in general easier. In 1939 Popular Mechanics, a magazine […]

Key executives were the ones who always had the “office with a view”. Now, however, on modern buildings built in the past few years the atrium is one of the most popular (and expensive) amenities. It is popular because virtually every office can have a window view, either toward the conventional view, the outdoors, or […]

Whether it’s a new office building, industrial warehouse, retail shopping center, or high-rise residential apartment building, investors and lenders increasingly demand to see a substantial portion pre-leased before they are willing to put up construction money. Purely speculative construction projects are rare in today’s real estate market. People are reluctant to invest in buildings that […]