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According to the 2019 Commercial Real Estate Outlook’s survey of 500 global investors, industrial, along with other “nontraditional REITs,” is the only asset not trading at a discount of its net value. That is despite growing global uncertainty due to U.S. tariffs and Britain’s exit from the Euro.
Coldwell Banker Commercial was ranked as the top commercial real estate company for Certified Commercial Investment Members (CCIM) designees by the CCIM Institute. Coldwell Banker Commercial Affiliates had 222 CCIM designees in 2018, the most of any company.
CBC is revamping its visual identity with a sophisticated, modern look. To help affiliates implement this new look and streamline the marketing process, Coldwell Banker Commercial Affiliates will offer Buildout, a web-based commercial marketing platform, to its entire network.
The Coldwell Banker Commercial® consumer survey found that Americans consider private and quiet spaces more important than team-meeting spaces, as only 66 percent of adults say they would be OK with working in an open office if large meeting spaces or conference rooms were available.
According to a CBC online survey, Americans are comfortable with open offices with private spaces and limited noise. The study conducted by The Harris Poll identified attitudes towards open office concepts to understand how businesses can optimize office space according to worker preferences.
The past decade has seen several events and natural disasters, including an oil spill, multiple hurricanes, and a nation-wide recession. As a result, the commercial real estate landscape in the 5 coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the I-10 Corridor has emerged with more opportunity than ever before.
If you take a look around, it’s easy to see that online retail has become increasingly competitive. Gaps and niches in the market are filled, and there seems to be a shiny, new brand catering to every market segment out there.
Big data analysis and applied data science techniques to databases are certainly nothing new, but their application in the commercial real estate space is. Commercial real estate is a huge industry—$12 trillion, to be exact—so the ability to make a better decision through data can save both time and money.
Every industry has its own lingo, but there are some fields that really have a lot of jargon – and commercial real estate is definitely one of those fields. If you don’t have a background in CRE or CRE experience, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
If you spend any time at all in the commercial real estate world, you’ve probably heard and seen terms like green, clean energy and sustainability all over the place. But are you really sure about what these terms mean, or how they’re applied?