Commercial Property: The Changing Retail Scene

Posted on 28. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

This growing trend is now likely to become a structural change, as far as ongoing consumer spending patterns are concerned.

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12 Fundamentals You Need to Follow ... When Buying Commercial Property

Posted on 24. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

As you'll appreciate, being able to sleep at night is one of the key objectives for any Commercial property investor. And that's what you might refer to as staying below your "Threshold of Insomnia".

There can be several things that might cause you to lose sleep. One is over-borrowing; and the others are making a poor assessment of the market and the property itself.

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Commercial Property to Benefit From Structural Changes Within the Economy

Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

The reality is there are more people currently employed within the health and welfare services industry, than in any other segment of the economy. To the point where the total services sector accounts for around 80% of the Australian employment scene.

And this is good news for Commercial investors, because these growing numbers all need to be accommodated.

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What Makes You a Successful Commercial Property Investor?

Posted on 16. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

WHEN IT COMES to Commercial property investing, have you ever actually sat down and analysed your principal aims? And have you then matched them against the properties you already own — or those you may now be considering? Basically, you'll find most people purchase Commercial property for one (or more) of four reasons.

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How Commercial Property Investors Benefitted From The Past 7 Days?

Posted on 14. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

LAST TUESDAY, the RBA left the cash rate unchanged — much to the surprise of most pundits. And yet, only the week before, that's exactly what I suggest would happened.

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Your Success in Commercial Property Begins With The Correct "Investment Vehicle"

Posted on 09. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

BEFORE YOU purchase your next Commercial property, you do need to take some advice on which purchasing vehicle is right for you — because it's definitely not 'one size fits all'.

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National Office Market Shows Steady Improvement

Posted on 07. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Across the 26 markets depicted in the graph, demand was up 20% up and supply 30% down, on the 20-year average for the six-monthly period.

Total vacancies fell from 9.0% to 7.9% ? the lowest since January 2009.

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Commercial Property Needs to be Properly Managed ... THEN You Will Profit Handsomely

Posted on 02. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Once you have carefully chosen your Commercial property investment, and negotiated a great deal with the purchase ... you then need to turn your mind to ensuring you extract the most from it, during the time of your ownership.

Here are the Key Areas where your Property Manager needs to be really well versed.

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What Will Happen to Interest Rates
When The RBA Meets Next Week?

Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

The general consensus seems to be that the RBA will further reduce rates by 25 basis points. But can this view be fully justified; and what does this mean for Commercial property investors?

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Commercial Property: Global Influence?

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Last year saw $US400 billion in direct commercial property deals worldwide — which reflected an increase of 25% on 2010.

Australia's share of those deals was $6.5 billion in Office towers during last year — with 28% of those purchases being made by overseas buyers.

And this is expected to continue strongly during 2012.

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Commercial Property: What Makes for a Balanced Office Market?

Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

EVERY capital city has both a CBD and suburban Office market. And as you can appreciate, keeping tabs on all the various suburban markets is almost an impossible task for most investors. As a rule of thumb, Office markets are said to the "in balance", when their Vacancy Rate lies between 5% and 7%.

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