Commercial Real Estate

How Resilient is Your City?

Is your city environmentally sustainable? Is it socially vulnerable? Does it have adaptive capacity? Grosvenor’s Resilient Cities study, which looks at these factors and more, was released at the Urban Land Institute’s Spring Meeting this month. Canadian cities – Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary – ranked most resilient. Chicago was the top city in the U.S.

Optimistic Outlook for CRE Industry

The latest Urban Land Institute/EY Real Estate Consensus Forecast (a semiannual survey of economists and analysts at the nation’s leading real estate organizations) projects steady growth for the U.S. economy, sustained strength from real estate capital markets, and continued improvement in the commercial real estate sector in the years ahead. This promising news was featured

Video: CORFAC Builds International Relationships

View CORFAC's latest 25th Anniversary video! 2014 Secretary and International Committee Chair Ray Lyons, SIOR, CCIM, MRICS of Thomas L. Johnson Realty/CORFAC International in Ontario speaks about the value of CORFAC's international affiliation. CORFAC International has 65 offices in North America, and, in association with its global affiliates and FIABCI (the International Real Estate Federation),

Office Specialty: Questions A Broker Should Ask

In this week's Office Specialty Call, Jim Streff, AIA, LEED AP of Hengst Streff Bajko Architects presented “Questions A Broker Should Ask” about office space. What is the best way to determine a tenant's square footage needs? What is important in a "base building" that will be important to the tenant? What are issues particular

First Al McConkey, Jr. Award Presented

In memory of CORFAC's first president who passed away in 2013, the Al McConkey, Jr. Award was presented for the first time in 2014 to a past CORFAC president for his leadership and ongoing dedication to CORFAC International. Charles B. King, Jr., SIOR, of King Industrial Realty, Inc./CORFAC International in Atlanta was presented with the Al

Congratulations 2013 COR$TAR Winners!

Congratulations to the following Referring Brokers who were honored for the top CORFAC Referrals in 2013 at our Spring Conference in San Francisco. Top Industrial Steven Podolsky, SIOR, Podolsky|Circle CORFAC International Robbie McEachern, Don Ossey, SIOR, Capacity Commercial/CORFAC International Top Retail Tim Cherre, Sansone Group/CORFAC International Top Office Jeffrey Garibaldi, Gerald Moore, Garibaldi Group/CORFAC International Renee Betzelos,

CORFAC’s Capacity Commercial Group Principals Honored as Top Industrial and Office Brokers in Portland, Oregon

Two Capacity Commercial Group/CORFAC International principals won local awards for industrial and office brokerage services in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan market. Don Ossey, SIOR and principal with Capacity Commercial Group/CORFAC International won the Broker of the Year Award/Industrial at the recent Commercial Association of Brokers and NAIOP awards ceremony held at the Portland Art Museum. Ossey also shared

Spring Conference Speaker Announced

CORFAC is headed to San Francisco. And we have a special guest speaker at our COR$TAR Anniversary Dinner Friday, March 28! California State Assembly Member Phil Ting, who is also the former Assessor-Recorder of the City and County of San Francisco, will talk about innovation, technology, and how California attracts foreign investments. Ting currently chairs

What is Different About CORFAC? Independence and Collaboration.

As CORFAC International Celebrates its 25th anniversary, Past President William H. Hawkins, SIOR of Chas. Hawkins Co., Inc./CORFAC International in Nashville talks about our worldwide commercial real estate network - locally owned firms, connected globally. Listen as Bill explains what makes CORFAC successful and unique. In recent years, CORFAC affiliates completed an average of over 9,600

Timely Technology Article on NREI Online

Will 2014 be "A Breakout Year for Commercial Real Estate Technology?"  Read National Real Estate Investor's March 5, 2014 online article - a timely tech primer before our technology-themed conference next week in San Francisco. Several of our Tech Panel speakers' firms are mentioned.