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May 17, 2011
North American Office Highlights | 1Q 2011 The U.S. office market began the year on a more muted note with only a modest increase in occupied space and little change in vacancy. Rents continued to languish, but for the first time in three years both downtown and suburban rents managed to eke out small gains. [...]
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May 14, 2011
Social Media and Commercial Real Estate 6 Reasons CRE Brokers Should Have a Blog Taking “The Social Risk” My Social Media ROI How Social Media has Made Me a Better Broker How Social Media Made Me a Better Off-Line Networker But, Have You Made Any Money with Social Media? Twitter Appears to be the Social [...]
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May 11, 2011
As tenant representatives we spend years rehearsing and refining our talking points as to why commercial tenants should hire brokers to represent their interests in lease transactions. I know I could search the archives of this blog and come up with a couple of posts containing a bullet list of compelling reasons articulated in my [...]
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May 2, 2011
Colliers International | Houston OFFICE Renewals increase in 1st Quarter as Houston Office Tenants Take Advantage of Lower Lease Rates. The Houston Office Market posted 378,000 square feet of positive net absorption during the first quarter, with the suburban sector once again outperforming the Central Business District (CBD). Year-over-year vacancy rates decreased slightly from 16.2% [...]
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April 28, 2011
If you are in the commercial real estate industry and unless you were under a rock yesterday or taking a much needed vacation, you heard all the buzz regarding the announcement that CoStar Group has agreed to acquire rival service provider LoopNet in a $860M transaction. The buzz on twitter following the announcement was significant [...]
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April 26, 2011
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Brookfield Office Properties is close to completing a deal to sell the former Enron corporate headquarters building to Chevron, the current tenant for $380 million. Brookfield acquired the 1.2 millions square foot property at 1400 Smith in Houston’s Central Business District in 2006 and subsequently leased the building [...]
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April 26, 2011
Research Matters By: Ross Moore | Chief Economist, Colliers USA First-quarter data from Real Capital Analytics shows investment sales market trade activity continuing to increase. For all property types, first-quarter dollar volume registered $31.4 billion, a 68.8% increase from Q1 2010. Indeed, this quarter’s sales were almost three times the level of Q1 2009, when [...]
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