A possible solution for all the commercial real estate debt that is coming due?
Todd Clarke @ November 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Reading this article at the Economist got me thinking…
What if borrowed and lenders had a prenegotiated arrangement that converted debt into equity a commercial real estate deal? I don’t mean like todays, expensive involuntary conversion that happens through foreclosure, but a more organized rational, prenegotiated, pre-nupital like document that said something like “in the [...]
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Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s technology lunch and learn
Todd Clarke @ November 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In less than 90 minutes, we covered technology and how to best make it work for the commercial Realtor.
Everything from making presentations using your iphone and a portable projector, how to find a $200 netbook, take your office into the digital era by going paperless to the best tech tools to travel with.
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Albuquerque’s housing market continues to improve while USA shows decrease
Todd Clarke @ November 11, 2009 # One Comment
According to a story in today’s Albuquerque Journal, 80% of this country’s cities showed a decrease in home sales prices, but Albuquerque remained on an modest upward trend.
“Third-quarter data showed the median sale price in the Albuquerque metro area was $183,500 — up from the first and second quarters — but down about 5 percent [...]
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Now this is my kind of apartment
Todd Clarke @ August 19, 2009 # One Comment
from the Cool Hunter website comes a possible design for a new W hotel…
The website features several perspectives and layouts on this apartment, which looks like a cross between BladeRunner and Space 1999.
Hey - who is that in my shower?
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Are REIT’s the canary in the mine?
Todd Clarke @ January 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
As major retailers like CompUsa, Mervyn’s, Linens and Things, Circuit City, fold one after another, leaving vacant spaces in major malls across the country, occupancy rates continue a downward trend, which eventually leads to decreasing rents and values.
Real Estate investors with the most leverage (i.e. the least amount of their own money), will [...]
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A motto for 2009? “Don’t be Stupid”
Todd Clarke @ January 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to my good friend, Sam Foster for turning me on to this article in the WSJ. The OP-ED piece by Daniel Henninger highlight’s one of today’s biggest issues for an investor - how to sort through the overwhelming amount of data and capitalize on the fact, while others are swapping cocktail [...]
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The Washington Post’s take on the Economic Meltdown
Todd Clarke @ January 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Washington Post has an interesting article on how the pieces for put into play for today’s economic meltdown over two decades ago.
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How far will retailers go to understand how you buy?
Todd Clarke @ December 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In the December 20th, 2008 issue, the Economist covers the latest trends in how Retailers are analyzing your shopping habits.
Would you believe?
- Camera’s that read your facial patterns?
- receiver’s that record your wherebouts based on your cell phone?
- reorganizing the store so the things you buy the most are in [...]
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If it has a garage, is it real estate?
Todd Clarke @ December 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There is often a fine line between real estate and personal property.
Manufactured homes are often considerd personal property, unless they are affixed to the ground, wheels removed, and the appear to be even more like real esate if a garage is added.
So what happens when you add a garage to a mobile home [...]
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FAA approves Upham, NM for a space port…
Todd Clarke @ December 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The old adage about location, location, location certainly applies to Upham, NM.
Whats that you say? Where the H-E, double hockey sticks is Uphan? As a native NM who was born not too far from there, I’m afraid to tell you I didn’t know where Upham was until a couple of years ago when the Governor [...]
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Higest and Best Use Analysis…for a space shuttle?
Todd Clarke @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Tampa Bay Fox News is reporting that NASA has issued a Request for Inquiries for potential uses for three soon to be retired space shuttles. Space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour are slated to be mothballed and sold off for approx. $42M each. Shipping is likely to be $6M, and I’m guessing that since these [...]
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