Market Update November 23, 2020

Bekah Carlson This week I attended some of the virtual online sessions at NAR’s annual conference. Most interesting was economist Lawrence Yun, who forecast a 9% growth in residential transactions for 2021. This will certainly have an impact on commercial real...

Market Update November 16, 2020

Bekah Carlson I heard a phenomenal line of questioning from a business broker this morning on a virtual networking call: What have you learned this year that you can package and sell? Are there services and insight that you provide that can be assembled as a specific...

Market Update November 9, 2020

Bekah Carlson If you didn’t attend this week’s West region broker breakfast, you missed a great one! Kim Miller from Loberg Construction explained the increased construction costs that the market is experiencing – most of which are tied to labor and...

Market Update November 2, 2020

Bekah Carlson If you have restaurants that you work with who are considering who are inclined to remain open in defiance of the Governor’s order, they can consider sending this letter: https://theserviceindustry.us/pritzker-letter/ Shari Haefner Closings remain steady...

Market Update October 25, 2020

Bekah Carlson I am seeing a steady increase of properties being marketed on LinkedIn – this is a great forum and if you are not using it, you should! We are experiencing some good traction with residential (apartment) marketing through Facebook advertising and...

Market Update October 16, 2020

Bekah Carlson Be aware that the challenges facing the urban core have an extended timeline as more and more corporations have announced that the earliest their employees are coming back into the office is summer of 2021, pushing back the initial goal of January 2021...