The Phoenix office sector has seen strong growth as the overall economy has continued to improve. The Valley is considered a very attractive place for firms to relocate to as reported by Site Selection magazine. Phoenix topped other Western cities like Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Construction, sales and rent are all gaining momentum, while leasing has stayed stagnant. This trend can be explained in part by the slow office space job growth a

Office real estate space leasing may be the next industry to go entirely online, Globest.com reports. According to Mark Gilbreath, founder and CEO of LiquidSpace, a new app that provides a new-age solution to the office leasing space search, leasing will be done entirely online by 2020. Gilbreath cites a new office community where workers are looking to get out of the office to get work accomplished to be driving the shift and LiquidSpace has the solution. LiquidSpace offers

GlobeSt.com recently spoke with Bill Shopoff, chairman, president and CEO of Shopoff Realty Investments, about the future of the value-add market. In the second part of the interview with Shopoff, strategies necessary for success with value-add assets are discusssed as well as some advice for investors in the space, including keeping an eye on urban-type redevelopment and infill commercial project real estate as two hot button items looking into 2015. Read the full story fro

AZRE features Helix's announcement of plans for a retail develop,ent in Goodyear. Read the full story from AZRE here. #commercialrealestate #helix #realesate #retail

There's been buzz in the commerical real estate industry that retail is the next big investment product type. With reports that companies throughout the US are actively seeking retail properties to be inline with this trend, The key to thriving right now is to do your homework. Globest.com gets three tips from Todd Siegel, Vice President Retail, Passco Companies LLC on how to move in the cycle. Read more about Siegle's tips and tricks on Globest.com by clicking here. #commerc

In a recent discussion with GlobeSt.com, Shari Tucker, council chair of retail investments for Sperry Van Ness, says that retail is at a point of much change. Here's a summary of the information shared with GlobeSt.com: 1) Bigger isn’t necessarily better now. Though the retail sector is seeing fewer store closings at the same magnitude of 2008’s Circuit City bankruptcy, large-scale stores are still closing and when they do, large retail space retail landlords are facing a cha

ICSC RECON14 The commercial real estate is buzzing this week from the positive energy at ICSC RECON14 in Las Vegas, NV. ICSC RECON24, commercial real estate’s largest convention event of the year, brought in a record-breaking crowd of over 33,300 attendees to the 2014 show. Industry leaders in the retail sector came together to discuss industry trends and hot topics. The three day conference included sessions on pertinent commercial real estate happenings including property m