Commercial Real Estate & Business News September 5, 2018

Early Navigation of Opportunity Zone Waters Leaves Many Questions Opportunity Zones provide investors a new method to defer or eliminate tax on gains that is more flexible than Section 1031 exchanges. While I.R.C. §1031 like-kind exchanges now only permit delaying capital gains recognition for real estate investments, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News September 4, 2018

Report: Arizona economy growing at fastest pace since 2007 Arizona’s economy is growing at the fastest pace in more than 11 years, according to a report that foresees more of the same ahead. “The state averaged 3.2 percent real (gross domestic product) growth last year, and 2018 should do even better,” said BMO Capital Markets […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News September 3, 2018

Worldwide Appetite for Data Centers Keeps Growing CHICAGO-Although political or economic troubles agitate many regions of the world, an unquenchable demand from cloud providers helped the global data center industry expand by a remarkable amount in the first half of 2018, according to JLL’s latest Data Center Outlook. The Chicago-based company’s analysis reveals that the […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News August 31, 2018

Bank Commercial Property Loan Distress Recedes as Lending Climbs Despite talk of peaking property prices and declining yields as the economic recovery enters its 11th year, it is hard to find signs of commercial real estate weakness in the quarterly banking data released over the past week. The total amount of commercial real estate loans […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News August 30, 2018

Jerry Colangelo Becomes a Game-Changer in CRE Jerry Colangelo prides himself on being a storyteller. “I have lots of stories,” says Colangelo, a partner in JDM Partners, a Phoenix-based real estate development company. “I should have lots of stories. I was around when nothing existed.” Most of Colangelo’s stories stem from his time as one […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News August 29, 2018

Despite Rising Interest Rates, Multifamily Investors Still Confident in the Strength of Market Multifamily investors are bullish on the strength of the market, according to the recent findings of the Mid-Year Berkadia Powerhouse Poll, conducted by the lending firm in July. Even with many disruptive market factors, like rising interest rates and an uncertain political […]