[quote=SK in CV]When you say commercial real estate, that covers a whole lot of territory. Retail, hotels, industrial, office, public storage, mixed use, high rise, free standing. The market is different in each one of them. The ups and downs in each move on their own tracks (somewhat like high end and low end residential, though there is at least one of those categories that has continued to perform very well over the last few years.) The current investment model is different in each one of them. The financing is not always the same either.
In most categories,(though not all) trends tend to follow residential rather than lead. With the exception of hotels, trends tend evolve slowly, both up and down.
Comparing commercial real estate to residential real estate is like comparing apples to fish. They’re not even in the same family. And when someone tells you that commercial real estate is “mostly” anything, they don’t know what they’re talking about.[/quote]
I understand that commercial re is a broad nefarious subject by folks like me who have no clue in this area and considerably more complex then residential…And no way I’m considering it as any time of “investment” since I don’t understand how it works.
So at the risk of sounding really dumb (so be it),
I was just curious as someone knowledgeable in any one of those categories could kinda give an overview of that categories investment model, financing,etc to a completely clueless person like me…
with the exception of hotels(or any time of residential short term rentals),
a)public storage
b)office space
c)you mention mixed use? Can you elaborate?
Sorry, this stuff needs to be dumbed down for me. I guess I can search some more on google. I just don’t even know where to start, except with SDR’s suggestion about visiting the other blog/website. Those “investment seminars” appear to be more interested in selling you “training” versus really explaining any of this.
It would be the equivalent of some non-techie asking me what is how do mobile O/S works, to which I would then say there’s so many of them..here’s a list. Which one do you want to talk about….
