Category: Trends
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The Tough Get Creative
The Tough Get Creative (GlobeSt.com) This is a good, and realistic, article from the new GlobeSt.com blog called MultiViews by Sule Aygoren Carranza. Positioning the multifamily market with “compared to its counterparts in the other property types, multifamily assets rank at the top of the list as the sector hurt the least by the recession.”…
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ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010
Via Urban Land Institute Highlights from Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2010 Commercial real estate industry investors and professionals remain decidedly negative, colored by distress over prospects for an extended period of anemic demand and costly de-leveraging, according to respondents of the Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2010 report, released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and…
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Apartment Owner Concessions Low in Northern Colorado
So far Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor apartment owners generally haven’t had to offer much in the way of incentives. Re-leasing has taken a little longer than in the past and vacancies are a little higher than in the recent past, but the concessions have been tight. Greeley has experienced a little more “softness” and…
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Commercial Property Values Up in Q3 – Index
* U.S. commercial real estate prices rise 4 pct in Q3 * Sales rise in Q3 By Ilaina Jonas (via Reuters) NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) – The prices of investment-grade commercial real estate rose more than 4 percent in the third quarter, possibly signaling an end to the sector’s year-long downward spiral, according to…
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Center Partners adding 500 employess
By 9 News • September 19, 2009 Fort Collins-based Center Partners is hiring 500 new employees. Since August, the company has hired 200 employees and is planning to add 500 more. A successful sales campaign in June allowed Center Partners to add 700 positions. Michelle Entwistle, a recruiter with Center Partners, said positions start at…
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CSU sets record enrollment
Coloradoan – By Coloradoan staff • September 18, 2009 Colorado State University set a new record for enrollment this fall with 25,413 students, including 21,204 undergraduates, 3,671 graduate students and 538 professional veterinary medicine students. This is an increase of 1.6 percent from last year’s total enrollment of 25,011. A total of 4,285 new freshmen…
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How to Negotiate a Lease Buyout
From: AAOAQ: One of my tenants would like to get out of his yearlong lease, which has eight months left. I understand that he remains liable for the whole rent until I re-rent the unit, but he’s approached me with a different proposition. He wants to negotiate a buyout, right now, so that he won’t…
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Colorado Health Public Awareness – H1N1
Letter from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment urging businesses to prepare for the impact of H1N1 now. Contacts: Lori Maldonado Deputy Director, Office of Communications 303-692-2028 Businesses Encouraged to Follow Updated Guidelines to Protect Against H1N1 and Seasonal Influenza DENVER- The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment today urged businesses to…
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Terrix Financing Rates 08/17/09
Rates are down!! When was the last time you saw a fixed rate starting with a 4?? Apartments continue to be the least difficult type of property to finance.Below are today’s rates for select apartment loan programs. We do have other options for different scenarios. Loans ~$2,000,000+5/30 4.94% non recourse7/30 5.41% non recourse10/30 5.61% non…
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State Economy Outpacing Nation, says S&P
from NCBR Colorado’s economy is outpacing the nation, according to a new report from ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. The report cites the state’s “better-than-average” income level, employment and population growth as reasons the recession hasn’t taken as big of a toll in the state as other parts of the country. “Echoing national trends, the…