A PASSION FOR (REAL ESTATE) BUSINESS
Lawyers are like most other business professionals. We want your business and we want your referrals – we just don’t always know the best way to ask for either. Take me for example. I’ve been handling commercial real estate transactions and business…
NEW BOOK – Illinois Commercial Real Estate
I’m happy to announce that the website for my new book, Illinois Commercial Real Estate is now live. Visit www.Illinois-CRE.com for a book excerpt. Illinois Commercial Real Estate, Due Diligence to Closing, with Checklists, is intended as a…
AIR RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT – Chicago, Illinois
WHY DEVELOP AIR RIGHTS? Prime commercial land is limited. Prices per square foot can be astronomical. Demand for efficiency to maximize return on investment is growing. No wonder developers and property owners are looking to the sky, with varying degrees…
Keys to Closing A Commercial Real Estate Transaction
Commercial Real Estate Closings Anyone who thinks closing a commercial real estate transaction is a clean, easy, stress-free undertaking has never closed a commercial real estate transaction. Expect the unexpected, and be prepared to deal with it.…
DUE DILIGENCE CHECKLISTS for Commercial Real Estate Transactions
2016 Updat Are you planning to purchase, finance, develop or redevelop any of the following types of commercial real estate in the USA? A KEY element of successfully investing in commercial real estate is performing an adequate Due Diligence…
Cities Shooting Economic Development in the Foot
NOTICE TO MUNICIPALITIES: If you want economic development, ACT LIKE IT! Sometimes, municipalities can be their own worst enemies when it comes to economic development. At best, things they sometimes do, or don’t do, evidence disinterest, if…
WANTED: REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER
MONEE, ILLINOIS IS IN SEARCH OF A COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER – AND WILL PROVIDE ECONOMIC INCENTIVES This post is intended to serve two purposes: Let me first say that I am not a real estate broker or real estate developer, I don’t own land in…
ICSC RECon 2014 – SPOTLIGHT: MONEE, ILLINOIS
ICSC RECon 2014 is in full swing as the largest retail real estate convention in the world. Every year, retail owners, investors, developers, lenders and other commercial real estate professionals converge on Las Vegas, NV to network, discover, promote…
IN PRAISE OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS – Let’s Do Lunch!
This article is being republished as a welcoming salutation to many of my long-lost Real Estate Developer friends. You have been missed over the past several years. Call me. Let’s do lunch! Did I happen to mention I love Real Estate…
DUE DILIGENCE CHECKLISTS – for Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Are you planning to purchase, finance or develop any of the following types of Commercial or Industrial Real Estate? A KEY element to successfully investing in commercial or industrial real estate is performing an adequate Due Diligence Investigation…