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Opportunity Zones, Explained In 2017, the US Federal Government launched the Qualified Opportunity Zone (“QOZ”) Program to encourage financial investment and commercial real estate development in economically distressed communities across the country. Initially, the program’s benefits included several generous tax breaks, including an immediate partial... Read More »
This is the third and final installment in our series on Commercial Real Estate Lease Administration Best Practices. In this post, we’re going to address two subjects: letters of credit and storage space. Letters of credit and storage space are related because both have the... Read More »
This is the fifth post in our series on multifamily conversions. So far, we’ve covered: The history of multifamily conversions and the trends driving the current surge Office to apartment conversions Factory and hotel to apartment conversions Shopping mall to apartment conversions In today’s post,... Read More »
Welcome to Part 4 in our series on multifamily conversions. In this post, we look at converting space in vacant or struggling shopping malls into apartments—an idea that had taken root before the pandemic but was accelerated by it—including an analysis of the current state... Read More »
Welcome to Part 3 in our series on multifamily conversions. In Part 1, we discussed the 70+ year history of multifamily conversions in the US, looked at the current social, economic, work and housing trends fueling their current rise in popularity and considered the plusses... Read More »
Office to Apartment Conversions This is the second post in our series on multifamily conversions, a commercial real estate practice that’s been growing steadily for decades and is expected to accelerate as more and more office buildings struggle with high vacancies and decreased demand due... Read More »
The Pandemic’s Impact on Commercial Real Estate While it appears that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is behind us, the pandemic has had a profound but uneven impact on commercial real estate, an impact that is likely to reverberate through all sectors for years... Read More »
Lease Administration Best Practices – Part 2: Encumbered Space By Kathy Fera, Director, Realogic Today’s post is the second in our series on commercial real estate lease administration best practices. In our last post, we covered best practices for subleasing, an especially timely topic, given... Read More »
As anyone who owns, manages or invests in commercial real estate property knows, lease administration can have a substantial impact on the profitability of a commercial real estate building. Managed carefully and professionally, lease administration can increase the amount of revenue generated by a building... Read More »
The news completely stunned everyone at Realogic. Dan Kawahara – our Dan, who had been part of the Realogic consulting team for nearly 11 years—had died suddenly and unexpectedly at the relatively young age of 45. None of us here at Realogic could believe it.... Read More »