Tag Archives: price
The "Fund Gap" Threatens ...
Higher-Priced Commercial Property
Posted on 25. Jun, 2009 by Chris Lang.
Earlier this year, you read about a funding crisis pending for Property Trusts and Institutional buyers. And this is not helped by the RuddBank failing to materialise. With a surge in the Share Market since March, several recent capital raisings have helped some of these larger property owners. However, with the latest hiccup in Share [...]
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You May be a Doubter ... But I say: "Yes, we can!"
Posted on 23. Feb, 2009 by Chris Lang.
The Weekend Financial Review ran several articles, which seemed to echo many of the sentiments contained in my last blog about the Capital City Markets — but perhaps putting things a little more bluntly. Brisbane Mark Ludlow (on page 2) referred to Queensland as having moved from "boom state to gloom state" — because of [...]
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Taking Stock of Commercial Property
Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by Chris Lang.
As I mentioned in a recent mail to some Clients, it's been surprising how few quality properties have been forced onto the market — given the difficulties caused by current global turmoil. You've heard so much lately as to how bad things are. But let's undertake a quick comparison for Australia — between 1990 and [...]
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"Hardware Lane warehouse
goes at wholesale price"
Posted on 14. Jul, 2008 by Chris Lang.
THIS IS how The Age (on 9 July) described this recent purchase, which I successfully negotiated for one of my interstate clients. Managing to reduce a $7.2 million reserve price down to a final figure of $6.4 million ... resulted in a saving of almost $1 million.
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