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Screwed: Brokers Tell-All
“Business is the polar opposite of a high school dance—you can always find someone to screw you.”
By John McNellis
“Dear John:
I think you should write...
Online Dating
By John Cumbelich
The real estate industry’s version of online dating can be found in places with names like LoopNet, Crexi, Commercial Search, CoStar and...
McNellis: Many Happier Returns
Solving E-Commerce’s Challenge to Traditional Retail Comes in Small Packages
By John McNellis
Before the Wall Street Journal pontificates again about retail’s demise, about all those...
McNellis: Does WeWork at All?
Company discloses $1 billion losses in bond offering
By John McNellis
Wall Street’s biggest houses just hawked $702 million in junk bonds for WeWork. The junk...
McNellis: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
By John McNellis
If you are an entrepreneur, you are an optimist. You have to be. And, Pollyanna aside, it is no simple trick remaining...
Russ Solomon, R.I.P.
By John Cumbelich
The world of retail lost an inimitable icon last week with the passing of Russ Solomon, the founder of Tower Records, at...
Taking The Burn Out Of Escalating Construction Costs
By Adam Felson
The cost to build commercial office space is not getting any cheaper thanks to material increases, labor shortages and the demand of...
Goodbye Big Box
By John Cumbelich
First the old news: Department stores are departing; Facebook has replaced the mall as our national hangout; and Amazon and its peers...
A Peculiar Phenomenon in the Rental Market Gets a Lot More Peculiar
by Wolf Richter
Besides that, rents are in free-fall in Chicago, decline in Seattle, plunge here, soar there, city by city.
The peculiar phenomenon that had...
McNellis: Is the 1031 Exchange Panacea or Placebo?
By John McNellis
Upon selling a supermarket last week, we deposited our proceeds into a 1031 exchange account. Call this maneuver the triumph of hope...
