Location Advice

• The Hidden Cost of Owning vs. Leasing: What Most Business Owners Miss August 8, 2025
  For years, I’ve helped business owners wrestle with one of the biggest decisions they’ll ever face about their real estate: Should we buy our building or lease it?  At first glance, ownership might seem like the obvious winner—build equity, control your destiny, no landlord breathing down your neck. But like most things in commercial real estate, […]
• 10 Things I Learned While Writing a Book August 1, 2025
  After over four decades in commercial real estate brokerage and ten years writing this column, I thought I knew how to tell a story. Then I decided to write a book. And I’m pleased to say it’s published and available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle.  What started as a compilation of anecdotes turned into a deep […]
• Leverage: A Friend That Can Turn on You July 18, 2025
  Leverage is one of those concepts we throw around a lot in commercial real estate. It sounds sophisticated—like something whispered in back rooms by finance guys wearing French cuffs. But really, it’s simple: leverage means using someone else’s money to buy something you couldn’t afford on your own. That “someone else” is usually a lender, and […]
• Seven Things Owners or Occupants of Commercial Real Estate Should Do Before the End of 2025 July 11, 2025
  With the Big, Beautiful Bill now signed into law—and with interest rates, tax incentives, and construction dynamics shifting in real time—2025 is shaping up to be one of the most pivotal years in recent memory for commercial real estate decision-makers. Whether you own the building, lease the space, or advise someone who does, here are seven […]
• The Big, the Beautiful, and the Bill: What It Means for Commercial Real Estate July 4, 2025
  I’ve seen a lot of legislation in my decades as a commercial real estate broker—but few come with a name as audacious as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” It sounds like something you’d hear shouted over the din of a campaign rally or stitched onto a souvenir T-shirt. But behind the marketing glitz lies a […]