Buying real estate is always a stressful prospect. For most people, a purchase of a home is the single largest purchase they will ever make. However, people who are looking for a place to run their business out of may find that finding the right piece of commercial real estate can be just as stressful as finding the right home, if not more so. Continue reading “Considerations for Purchasing Commercial Real Estate”
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When a Commercial Tenant Goes on Offense
We were nearly a year into a heated battle with a retail tenant. In court, I was representing the landlord. Each side had hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line and the whole case was now turning on the judge’s interpretation of a few words in the lease. This was a Yellowstone Injunction case, and any commercial landlord who has been in the business for some length of time has either heard of or experienced one of these. They’re not pretty. Continue reading “When a Commercial Tenant Goes on Offense”
Making the Jump to Commercial Real Estate
I see it happen to successful residential real estate investors all the time. They get to a point where they’re doing a little bit of everything – working on rehabs, picking up some residential rentals to hold, assigning some of their contracts when the numbers make sense and looking at bigger deals. They’re in a rat race, they go non-stop all day and night. They’re doing well, financially, but then suddenly it hits them. Continue reading “Making the Jump to Commercial Real Estate”
Developers Pay above Market Rate for Air Rights over Pier 40
Two developers — Westbrook Partners and Atlas Capital Group — recently announced an agreement to pay $100 million to acquire 200,000 square feet of air rights over Pier 40 for a proposed mixed-use development. The amount is 33% above the valuation of the air rights. The air rights were valued at $75 million, based on an appraisal commissioned by the owner, Hudson River Park Trust.
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