Tag: commercial real estate

5 Things You Need To Know About Industrial Real Estate

by Randybaconin Real EstateLeave a Comment on 5 Things You Need To Know About Industrial Real Estate

warehouse industrial

The first three months of the year boded well for the industrial sector, which remains red-hot, hitting record low vacancies nationally and record net occupancy gains. Below are five key trends investors and commercial real estate players should be aware of within the industry.

National industrial vacancy levels hit 30-year lows this quarter. Vacancies continued to decline across the country by 20 basis points in Q1 to 5.3%. This is 300 basis points below the 10-year historical average of 8.3%, Cushman & Wakefield’s Industrial Market Beat reports.

Read entire article in Bisnow.com

Find out more about financing in Oklahoma and Arkansas or

Contact Liberty Realty Capital to discuss your financing needs.

 

The Un-Malling of America

by Randybaconin Real EstateLeave a Comment on The Un-Malling of America

Mall Remodels

For more than 50 years the heart and soul of many American communities was not Main Street but rather the big malls outside of town, the places where you could meet friends, have a meal, shop, get a job, or just hang out. The modern mall was a place to behold, a heated and air conditioned behemoth and a world unto itself, a world which has now become much smaller in recent years.

Old and familiar retail names are now downsizing and laying off — think of Radio Shack (closing 552 stores), Wet Seal (173 stores), HHGregg (88 stores), Limited (all 250 stores), BCBG Max Azria (120 stores), Family Christian Stores (240 stores), JC Penney (140 stores), Macy’s (63 stores), Kmart (108 stores), Sears (42 stores), and even retail giant Walmart (154 stores in the US). The situation is so dire that a website exists to track the carnage, DeadMalls.com.

And yet the prospects with malls may not be as dreadful as the headlines suggest.

“It’s a binary situation where strong malls continue to do well and then there are malls that are duds,” Steve Kuritz, managing director at the Kroll Bond Rating Agency, told The Wall Street Journal.

View entire article here on NuWire Investor website

Find out more about commercial real estate finance here or

Contact Liberty Realty Capital to discuss an opportunity

 

 

 

 

Inside Sears’ death spiral: How an iconic American brand has been driven to the edge of bankruptcy

by Randybaconin Real EstateLeave a Comment on Inside Sears’ death spiral: How an iconic American brand has been driven to the edge of bankruptcy

Commercial retail financing

One morning in late 2015, on Sears‘ vast Illinois campus, more than a dozen employees huddled in a videoconference room on a floor dubbed “B6.”

There, two mid-level employees were preparing a presentation for the CEO, Eddie Lampert, when their boss rushed in with some last-minute advice.

On a chart pad he wrote three words.

“He looks at the presenters and says, ‘Do not say these words to that guy,'” according to a former Sears executive who described the meeting to Business Insider. “That guy” meant Lampert, who would soon appear on a giant projector screen at the front of the room, beamed in live from a home office inside a $38 million Florida estate — 1,400 miles away from headquarters.

The pad with the three words was out of sight of Lampert’s video feed. One of the words on it was “consumer.”

The stakes were high. If any of those words were uttered in front of Lampert, the two presenters would “get shredded” by the CEO, whose frequent tirades had fostered a climate of fear among the company’s most senior managers, said another person — this one a former vice president.

View entire article here in Business Insider website.

Find out more about commercial real estate financing here

or contact Liberty Realty Capital Group to discuss your project.

 

Commercial Real Estate Lender That’s Reaching Way Past Arkansas

by Randybaconin Commercial Mortgage LendingLeave a Comment on Commercial Real Estate Lender That’s Reaching Way Past Arkansas
Fayetteville Commercial Real Estate Mortgage Financing
Commercial Real Estate Mortgage Financing Fayetteville

The focus in commercial real estate finance is often on big national banks like JP Morgan or big foreign ones like Deutsche Bank, but it would be a mistake to overlook the Southern lender that’s been making waves in the commercial real estate industry, bringing a little bit of the Ozarks to the world of high finance.

Bank of the Ozarks, based in Little Rock, Ark., broke into CrediFi’s ranking of the top 10 New York City lenders in the fourth quarter of 2016 with over $500 million in loan originations and a 3.0 percent market share.

The bank had previously made the list in the first quarter of 2016, ranking as No. 7, with over $400 million in financing and a 2.4 percent share of New York City’s commercial real estate market, but dropped from the top 10 list in the second and third quarters.

View entire article here in National Real Estate Investor.

Find out more about Arkansas financing opportunities or contact Liberty to discuss your real estate funding needs.

Banks Tightening CRE Lending Standards

by Randybaconin Commercial Mortgage Lending, Real EstateLeave a Comment on Banks Tightening CRE Lending Standards

Financing

CRE Loan Growth Still Strong but Moderates in July as Analysts Sees More “Rationality” Return to the Market

Second quarter bank earnings results and early third quarter lending numbers clearly show U.S.-based banks have tightened their underwriting standards for CRE loans as they face increased scrutiny of their commercial real estate lending from bank examiners.

In fact, loan officers at domestic banks reported that the current standards are tighter now than they have been on average since 2005, according to the latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey from the Federal Reserve.

The tighter underwriting is showing up in shortened interest-only periods and lower loan-to-value (LTV) ratios as well.

Read entire article on CoStar.com

To find out more about commercial real estate financing options contact Liberty Realty Capital

Best and Worst Apartment Markets in 2016

by Randybaconin Commercial Mortgage Lending, Real EstateLeave a Comment on Best and Worst Apartment Markets in 2016

Multifamily Financing

It’s a tough time to pick the strongest apartment markets. That’s because the markets with the strongest demand from renters are also the places where developers are the most eager to build new projects. As a result, the strongest and weakest markets so far in 2016 tend to be places where some kind of surprise has upset developers’ calculations—for better or worse.

Strong despite new supply

Rents are growing quickly in a few cities, including Seattle and Nashville, Tenn., despite very high levels of new construction. “The San Francisco Bay Area, Denver and Seattle have easily been the best performing major markets this cycle,” says Jay Denton, vice president with data firm Axiometrics. “Of that group, Seattle is the only one that remains in the upper-tier of rent growth today.”

Read entire post in National Real Estate Investor here.

Find out more about our commercial real estate lending programs and contact us to discuss your funding needs.