Hospitality Real Estate Market: Q4 Analysis and Outlook for 2013
Hotels are operating businesses housed within commercial real estate boxes. As such, their value is based on the revenue and profit earned by the business, and fluctuates accordingly. Hotel values dropped precipitously following the start of the recession in Q4 …
Five for Friday with Linda Emery of Sperry Van Ness Commercial Advisory Group
It’s Friday! We continue our Five for Friday series with Linda Emery, Senior Investment Advisor at Sperry Van Ness Commercial Advisory Group in Sarasota, Florida. 1. What is your geographic market and product specialty? My geographic market is the Florida …
Self storage: Q4 2012 Report and Outlook for 2013 by Nick Malagisi
As chair of the Sperry Van Ness® Self Storage Product Council, I am pleased to provide this quarterly report on the self storage industry. This report is intended for owners, operators, vendors who service the self storage industry, investors in this …
Technology – Value Add or Brain Suck? by Kevin Maggiacomo
My new iPhone 4s arrived finally arrived this past weekend. My oldest son and I opened the package with much anticipation and we immediately dropped what we were doing to configure the device. Among the many new features made part …
The Good News…
Recent events in the market, including the drawn out debate over the budget ceiling, Friday’s downgrade of the US credit rating and today’s downgrade of Freddie & Fannie by Standard & Poor’s, coincide with new data that show the broader …