State of Investment Sales 2023

The capital markets are the biggest wild card of the group. A few weeks ago, it looks like we finally had a clear path towards stability. But then we received a better than expected jobs report, the Fed chair signaled further aggressive rate hikes, and the 16th largest bank in the United States collapsed. On…

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State of Capital Markets 2023

And finally, investment sales. What’s going on with buyers, sellers and pricing? Now the volatility of the capital markets really slowed down transaction volume in Q4 of last year, but we’re starting to pick up steam now and we really expect that momentum to continue over the next 6 to 12 months. Currently, we’ve got…

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State of the Market 2023 Operations

We wanted to do a kind of “state of the market” just to let you all know what we’re seeing and hearing out there as it relates to operations, capital markets and investment sales. So we’ll start with the boots on the ground. Now, everyone from the REITs in their quarterly reports that just came…

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How Will Interest Rates Impact Real Estate Values?

Hello. I’m Brandon Karr with Marcus & Millichap. I lead the Karr Self-Storage Team in our Fort Worth, TX office and in our latest ‘Ask the Broker’ video, we wanted to talk a little bit about how interest rates could impact the value of your self-storage real estate moving into the 2nd half of 2021…

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How Will The Biden Administration’s Policies Impact Real Estate Owners?

Potential Tax Legislation Hello. I’m Brandon Karr with Marcus & Millichap. I lead the Karr Self-Storage Team in our Fort Worth, TX office and in our latest ‘Ask the Broker’ video, we wanted to talk a little bit about how potential tax legislation being proposed by the Biden Administration could impact real estate investors.  Build…

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How You Should Handle Unsolicited Offers For Your Property

Receiving too many Off-Market Offers? Hi this is Danny Cunningham with the Karr Self-Storage Team here in Fort Worth, TX.  It seems that every storage owner I talk to or meet with lately tells me that they are getting bombarded by folks trying to solicit off-market offers to purchase their facility.  Whether the interest is…

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2021 U.S. Commercial Real Estate Investment Outlook

Health Crisis Upends Commercial Real Estate’ Uncertainty Will Carry Well Into 2021 Pandemic Transforms Commercial Real Estate. COVID-19 changed the world in early 2020 as efforts to curb the spread of the pandemic had a dramatic impact. Stay-at-home orders, the need to physically distance, and having to abide by health and safety protocols had harsh…

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So You’re A Broker – Learn More About Our Brokerage

Many times when I introduce myself to storage owners and I tell them that I’m a broker, they say something along the lines of, “Oh, so you want me to sell my property?” And the truth is that I have no idea if it’s even the right time for you to sell. Of course, as…

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How Are Low Interest Rates Impacting My Property

People today wonder about interest rates and how they impact their property’s value. Some owners also ask whether or not we could sell their property for more money now that interest rates have reached near record lows. The answer to this question is that while we definitely need to look into the situation more deeply,…

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How Is Cash On Cash Return Relevant To Me

A client of ours called us the other day and we were looking at loans. She was thinking about buying one of the properties that we had listed and so I thought I would bring this topic here to discuss as well, that topic being cash on cash return. So what is cash on cash…

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