ISS World Expo – Vegas Recap 2018
Recently, I attended the ISS World Expo conference in Vegas. This was my first time at this event to learn a little about the self-storage product type. The overall layout of the conference and education sessions were well thought out. It allowed for me to pick a track of education to really get a better […]
1Q18 Officially in the Books | Phoenix Market Recap
It is amazing how fast the first quarter of each year always seems to fly by. Â It is a non-stop, press on the gas pedal type of quarter and 2018 was no different than 2017; well, maybe? In looking back at total transaction velocity for Phoenix Metro in 2017, there was on average about 260 […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News April 9, 2018
The March Jobs Numbers Show the Economy Is Sound, but Far From Invincible The March employment numbers were a disappointment, but only relative to extremely optimistic expectations. The basic story of a robust United States job market remains very much intact – though with an important asterisk. Sure, the United States added only 103,000 jobs […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – February 5, 2018
U.S. Added 200,000 Jobs in January; Unemployment at 4.1 Percent Another month, another solid jobs report. The pace of job growth has slowed somewhat over the last two years, but the economy is still adding jobs at about 2 million a year – a solid figure at a time when the unemployment rate is so […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – February 2, 2018
Signs of the Time: How Amazon is Driving Real Estate and What it Means Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is now the largest industrial real estate tenant in the Phoenix regional market as e-commerce led by the Seattle-based giant becomes a bigger and bigger part of the U.S. economy. Mike Petrivelli, CoStar’s regional research analyst, said […]
CCIM|IREM ECONOMIC FORECAST 2018 SUMMARY OF INSIGHTS
This annual event is a great way to get insight into the local commercial real estate market. Each year for over the past 10 years the Central AZ CCIM Chapter and local IREM Chapter are able to get the local experts from each commercial real estate product type to discuss what happened the previous year, […]