Silicon Valley commercial real estate market will continue to sizzle, report says.
What's more, the tech employment and expansion boom that has gobbled up office and research space at a dazzling pace the last couple of years is showing few signs of slowing down, the report released by commercial real estate firm Colliers …
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Looming Sequestration Expected to be a Villain to Commercial Real Estate …
Because the federal government is omnipresent–as an office tenant, as a builder of roads, bridges, military facilities, prisons and even offices–the revenue that the federal government contributes to the commercial real estate economy will be missed.
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Variant Buys 3709 Unit Babcock & Brown Portfolio Through Receivership Sale
BUSINESS WIRE)–Variant Commercial Real Estate, L.L.C. (Variant), a private real estate investment company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of a portfolio consisting of 14 multifamily properties it bought from court-appointed receivership.
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