DFW Office Market Still Rocking

Costar, a commercial real estate research and listing service, reported that the Dallas Fort Worth office market closed out 2019 with 5.2 million square feet (SF) of net absorption which is the highest since 2014 which had 6.9 million SF of net absorption. Net...

8 Reasons to Buy a Building Instead of Leasing

Most companies lease the office and warehouse space they occupy.  There are many reasons for that:  don’t want to be a landlord; don’t have the down payment; want to keep the money in the business where it will earn a higher return than in a real estate...

Estoppel? Condition or gift??

Estoppel.  Sounds like a medical condition you don’t want to talk about in polite company.  Or something you’d need a medicated cream to clear up.  Think of the embarrassment of checking out at the grocery store when the cashier gives you that knowing...

Don’t Let Your Lease Kill the Sale of Your Business

As an asset manager, in the late 90s, working for a large owner of office buildings, I got a phone call from a guy who said he was buying one of the companies in a Dallas building we owned. He said his company planned to close on the sale the next day and he wanted...