Commercial Real Estate in Rhode Island

[Jacob Cytrynbaum]

Hello Rhode Island real estate community,

I am interested in learning more about the commercial real estate here. What is the scene like? The RIREIG meeting is definitely on my calendar, but outside of that, what other suggestions do folks here have?

[Anthony Thompson]

@Jacob Cytrynbaum RIREIG is a good place to start. It’s largely residential focused just because that’s the background of most of the members (small residential landlords).

But there’s some commercial background/experience as well, and at least once a year there’s a main speaker who’s commercial oriented.

Outside of RIREIG I know there’s also an IREM chapter for Rhode Island (iremri.org) and I believe they even have a podcast so that’s definitely something to check out.

There's a commercial offshoot of the RI MLS called RICIE (Rhode Island Commercial information Exchange) which was sort of the RI MLS answer to Loopnet but it's had mixed success since a lot of the residential agents seem to dislike that MLS forces them to pay for a separate system when the residential and commercial system used to be the same.

The RI association of Realtors (RIAR) does have classes throughout the year though so if no one else chimes in with more resources here, one thing you could do is attend some of the commercial oriented classes (there’s a slight upcharge for non agents but they are open to the public) and network with the speakers and attendees in this event classes.