I am renewing a commercial lease with an existing tenant. Their 5-5 lease will expire this year. I intending to offer a new 5-5 lease with similar rent increase rates as the past 5 years. I started looking at LoopNet to see what current commercial rent rates are and the $/SQ/YR is about half to 2...
A lot of the storage deals I see get priced out carefully and never get a real supply check. Here's how I run it. About 7 square feet of storage per person is my benchmark. That's my rule of thumb, not a universal law. Markets differ. A seasonal town is going to look different than a small year-r...
When laying out a ground-up 160-stall RV and marine yard on 5 acres, the easiest trap to fall into on paper is maximizing stall count at the expense of turn geometry. Standard drive-up self-storage facilities run 20 to 25-foot drive aisles. But when your customer base is maneuvering 45-foot Class...
Just like the title says can someone explain what the most common deal looks like or just give and example ?
Are you seeing local banks stick to strict 60–65% LTV caps on your commercial refinances right now? Over the last 60 days, we’ve seen regional banks pull back significantly on debt-service coverage ratios (DSCR) for multi-family, industrial and retail properties especially for deals sitting in th...
Hey Bigger Pockets community, For the past few months, I have been designing a site layout, as well as a financial pro forma, for a new, state-of-the-art outdoor RV and boat storage facility along the Highway 7/13 corridor in Missouri that runs between the Kansas City metropolitan area and Truman...
Hey Bigger Pockets community! 👋 As someone who helps founders and real estate investors build out administrative and operational backend infrastructure, I see a lot of people hitting major roadblocks when starting or expanding in specialized housing. Whether you're looking at non-medical Sober Li...
I’m in Georgia and work with CRE investors on $750K–$5M acquisitions and bridge deals. I’m not a lender, and I don’t want to build a brokerage. For those who do this: If I bring a deal to a licensed commercial mortgage broker, is a fee split common? What splits do you actually see? Or is the clea...
Some Medicaid eligibility changes took effect October 1, with additional changes expected early next year. While the demand for healthcare isn't going away, changes in coverage could affect how different specialties operate and where their revenue comes from. For medical office owners and investo...
Most families compare these two on the wrong unit. Assisted living is priced per month and home care is priced per hour, so the two numbers never look like they are fighting each other until you multiply them out. CareScout’s 2025 Cost of Care Survey puts the national median for a non-medical car...
I am advising on a new construction senior living project in Central California. Four residential care homes. Fifty eight licensed beds. The operator is a family business that already runs two homes in the same market. Both are full. Both have a waitlist. Demand was never the hard part. The stack...
Hi all, Rob here, a Louisville agent who works mostly with investors. $875 billion. That's how much commercial and multifamily mortgage debt comes due in 2026, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. It's about 17 percent of all the commercial real estate debt in the country. Last year it ...
AI and data centers sit at the top of a lot of 2027 industry lists. Louisville is a live example of what happens when they actually show up in a mid-size city, so here's the ground-level version from a local agent, plus why it matters if you'll never own one. What happened here: Kentucky's first ...
Hi everyone! One challenge I've been thinking about in commercial real estate investing is how investors manage multiple opportunities at the same time. Between property evaluations, broker conversations, financial analysis, due diligence, and negotiations, there are plenty of moving parts. And s...
Sharing some numbers from my Q3 2026 Columbus multifamily review. Renters absorbed just over 8,000 units over the past 12 months, the highest in five years. That still covers only about 78% of the record 10,333 units delivered in the same period. Demand has been strong for three years running. It...
If you’re underwriting a senior housing deal, the starting question is what the resident actually pays per month, so I pulled the national numbers. CareScout’s 2025 Cost of Care Survey (data collected July to November 2025) puts the national median for assisted living at $6,200 a month. For nursi...
Looking for input from commercial and land investors on a site a friend of mine owns in Richmond's East End. The basics: • ±1.96 acres across two adjoining parcels • 0.46 AC zoned C-3 and 1.5 AC zoned R-3 • Frontage(~24K cars/day), secondary access (~25K cars/day) • Next door to Walgreens, across...
Looking for Information for a commercial property. We are wanting to buy a commercial property. It is for sale by owner with an agent involved as well. Owner is asking for 50% down, and will finance the rest. Building has rehab needed. What would be the best way to finance this property? We also ...
Normally I get a Large Diet coke most mornings. Just went up from $1.59 to $1.70 today at Mc Donalds. It was $1.09 about 3 years ago. Before that it stayed at $1.09 for I think 5 years. This is my Day To Day living Inflation barometer. Just talked with our Banker today, finalizing a loan for a ne...
I've been reading a few recent market reports and I've noticed one thing that keeps coming up, which is that office is starting to recover, but not everywhere. Newer buildings in good markets are doing well but older buildings in oversupplied markets are still having a tough time. Lenders are als...
Good morning, BiggerPockets community! My name is Mayo, and I represent Gilfurt Capital, an independent commercial real estate financing brokerage. I'm expanding my professional network throughout Houston and looking to connect with commercial real estate investors, multifamily operators, develop...
If you own or invest in Rochester real estate, are you looking at what the proposed zoning changes could mean for your actual properties? The City’s Zoning Alignment Project—ZAP—includes a proposed replacement zoning code and map. It’s still moving through the public review process, with official...
How to Evaluate Private Commercial Real Estate Opportunities
Personally, unless I've got something in the 3s, which I don't since most of my portfolio is commercial, I'm looking at return on equity combined with velocity of capital more than the rate itself. If I can refinance from a 4 to a 6.5 but use that money to get a 20-30% return on a value-add deal ...
Hello, I have some questions about commerical real estate and financing. What is really the danger in buying property if really the credit is business credit? If a property goes under or has a major financial emergency then the risk is really the business not the personal credit. Ideally we don’t...