Office buildings can roughly be defined into three categories.   The most expensive offices are called Class A , which is a higher quality building in a prime location with amble amenities. Class B  could be an older building still in a good location but usually with less amenities.  Class C is an older building and/or located in a suburban market with little to no amenities.  Prior to COVID these different Class of building were quite predictable in occupancy and desirabili

In the days before the Internet and phone apps, the Capitalization Rate (“Cap Rate”) was perpetuated by college professors and economists. Today, the formula on how to make the Cap Rate remains the same but the components of measurement somewhat differ. Some subjective elements like property age, location, property type, and income concentration can vary in its application.   What is a Cap Rate?   It’s a metric calculation used in commercial real-estate to estimate current va

A.I. marketing specifically to the Real Estate Finance sector relies on finding targets left behind in the Digital Universe.  A.I. sends your marketing message to appropriate users sometimes modifying on the fly the message to fit the specific attributes of the target user.   Being a long-time marketing believer in the need to find your client I went for A.I. Marketing. What I got back was less than I expected, a very minimal response. What I mostly got were email responses f

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