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Hospitality Real Estate Market: Q4 Analysis and Outlook for 2013

Hotels are operating businesses housed within commercial real estate boxes. As such, their value is based on the revenue and profit earned by the business, and fluctuates accordingly. Hotel values dropped precipitously following the start of the recession in Q4 …

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Bo Barron's Tips to Build Better Business Relationships

Commercial Real Estate is all about relationships. Getting face to face with prospects and clients is the most effective way to build relationships and to find and win business. With the onset of new technologies, there’s a growing trend to …

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Launch of Sperry Van Ness Property Management Services

A comprehensive product management (PM) franchise product–Sperry Van Ness Property Management Services— is now  is available as part of the Sperry Van Ness® organization.  This new offering makes available sales and leasing, building maintenance, tenant retention and other property management services …

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Self storage: Q4 2012 Report and Outlook for 2013 by Nick Malagisi

As chair of the Sperry Van Ness® Self Storage Product Council, I am pleased to provide this quarterly report on the self storage industry. This report is intended for owners, operators, vendors who service the self storage industry, investors in this …

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Welcome to the new Sperry Van Ness blog

Before starting a blog, you need to consider  why you are blogging. Here at Sperry Van Ness  we’ve been encouraging all our Advisors to participate in social media, and it’s time we pitched in and gave them even more to …

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Office Properties

Commercial Real Estate Office Properties Q4 2012 and Beyond

Going forward, there are a lot of reasons to be excited about the commercial real estate brokerage opportunities in the office property arena. Of the leading property types, office property by its very nature requires those dedicated to the product …

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Finishing Well by Kevin Maggiacomo

5 The following are excerpts from a note I sent to the SVN Advisor base this morning. I thought that others may find some of the content useful, and I am posting herein as a result. Enjoy. 5 SVN Advisors …

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The Year Ahead – 2012 by Kevin Maggiacomo

As we look forward to a new year, I am pleased to share my thoughts on the very memorable 12 months past, and to offer my outlook for the commercial real estate market in 2012. Before I do, I would …

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Technology – Value Add or Brain Suck? by Kevin Maggiacomo

My new iPhone 4s arrived finally arrived this past weekend. My oldest son and I opened the package with much anticipation and we immediately dropped what we were doing to configure the device. Among the many new features made part …

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