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Post Covid Impact On Commercial Real Estate

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2023-01-15 03:07:50

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the commercial real estate market. The impact has varied depending on the property type and location, but some general trends that have been obser...

Get The Most Out Of Cimls

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2023-01-15 03:03:12

Create a free account: By creating a free account, you will have access to all of the features and tools of the website, including the ability to save searches, save properties, and receive alerts whe...

Evaluating A Retail Property Value

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2023-01-15 02:51:05

There are several methods to calculate the value of a retail property, but the most common ones include:

CRE Trends And Projections Post 2020

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2021-01-24 05:58:37

The Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry has been affected more than most others during 2020 and the pandemic. Real Estate investors, managers and providers will be required to innovate and deploy c...

Why LA Is Poised For an Office Space Rebound in 2021

Posted by Jonathan Wasserstrum on 2020-11-21 22:43:54

This year has been a challenging one for all of us, balancing our regular responsibilities amid a global pandemic. When many of us were sent home in early March and told to stay there until further no...

Financial Roadmap for Analyzing Commercial Real Estate

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2020-06-15 02:55:05

There a number of factors that allow for evaluating real estate investments from a financial point-of-view. Financial are typically easy to get and easy to compare so a good place to start when evalu...

Going For Broke – Covid19 Grand Give Away !

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2020-04-28 23:16:16

Congress authorized spending $2.2 trillion as part of the CARE Act in early April 2020 and an additional $0.5 trillion a couple of weeks later. The Federal Reserve also authorized monetary easing tha...

Commercial Real Estate In The Next Decade – Politics & Economics

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2020-01-19 20:07:33

The 2020 decade is beginning with commercial real estate in an upswing, but to answer the question of how the next decade will unfold, our crystal ball is not as clear! So let

Commercial Real Estate Midyear Report

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2019-06-14 01:19:29

We are almost half way through 2019, a year that started with more volatility than is normal all year. The volatility has come from politics, equity markets, and international relations, just to name...

Residential Multifamily Trends- Through The Eyes Of An Investor

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2019-04-05 23:04:35

Let's look at the last ten years from 2009-2019: it has been an extraordinary time to own or invest in residential multifamily properties. During this period, trends favoring strong investment growt...

New On Cimls: Improvements To Adding/editing Listings

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2017-03-09 01:16:42

Hello CIMLS members! We've recently added and improved to the process of adding your listings to CIMLS. Here is a brief summary of the changes:

New On Cimls: Import Listings In Bulk With The Cimls Csv Upload Tool

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-12-12 22:00:29

Have a large amount of listings, but don't have time to add each listing individually? Good news then: we've recently added a new free tool for CIMLS members to use to import listings in bulk directly...

Cimls Updates - July 2016

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-07-11 21:51:56

Hello CIMLS members! Recently we've put out a few updates to the website to improve performance and ease of use. I'd like to take a bit to summarize these changes.

Cimls Property Request

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-05-16 15:13:38

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Loans And Financing Professionals

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-05-04 20:25:25

With over 320,000 registered members and $500 Billion Dollars worth of commercial property listings CIMLS.com offers the largest open commercial real estate listing service online. Join the commercial...

Cimls Gold Membership

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-04-29 23:48:21

With approximately 320,000 registered members and over 500 billion dollars of commercial property listings, CIMLS offers the largest free commercial listing service online today. CIMLS members include...

Cimls Comps Feature

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-04-29 23:13:09

With over 320,000 registered members and $500 Billion Dollars worth of commercial property listings CIMLS.com offers the largest open commercial real estate listing service online. Join the commercial...

Cimls Saved Search

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-04-19 17:45:30

CIMLS is the leading free commercial real estate data resource online today. We provide commercial property marketing, data and listing management services. The CIMLS platform attracts thousands of co...

Cimls Professional Search

Posted by Erin Mcbride on 2016-04-18 01:08:48

CIMLS is the leading free commercial real estate data resource online today. We provide commercial property marketing, data and listing management services. The CIMLS platform attracts thousands of co...

Listing Commercial Real Estate Properties On Cimls.com

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-04-09 14:53:51

CIMLS is the leading free commercial real estate data resource online today. We provide commercial property marketing, data and listing management services. The CIMLS platform attracts thousands of co...

The Three Methods Of Appraising Commercial Real Estate.

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-03-28 02:51:48

To evaluate and price commercial property, investors and their appraisers use one or more of the following methods: Market, Cost, and Income Valuation.

Stepping Up The Value Of Your Commercial Property Investment

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-03-16 20:00:53

CIMLS.com investigates how to add value to a commercial property through operations assessment. Managing financial risk means making an accurate and diligent property assessment. When performed correc...

Commercial Real Estate, Investing In An Institutionalized Asset Class

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-03-12 01:53:56

At CIMLS, we were curious to see what made up the commercial real estate investment portfolio for 2016. Here is what we found: more commercial real estate is owned by smaller firms as brokers and inve...

Commercial Real Estate Investments In 2016

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-03-01 16:50:07

From SVN, Commercial Real Estate Advisors, comes the 2016 Commercial Real Estate Outlook: Commercial real estate investors who took risks during the downturn to make acquisitions are now seeing the be...

Global Cities In An Era Of Change

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-02-27 18:03:59

A symposium in Palto Alto, California will host leaders in real estate and global markets to focus on challenges presented by our growing population. Over half of our world's population will live in u...

Projected Low Vacancy, High Rent Growth

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-02-17 17:03:23

Placing highest in 2016's National Multifamily Index are metros with low vacancy, strong rent growth and solid projected employment gains. San Francisco and San Jose are in the highest ranks as they h...

New From Apto, Commercial Real Estate Blog

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2016-02-12 23:32:21

From apto, a commercial real estate blog, comes 3 inventive ways to get the deal done in a slim market:

Commercial Real Estate Advertising

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2015-11-24 06:51:06

Reaching the on the go folks in the Commercial Real Estate Community is always a challenge. However, professionals are always looking for deals so your message needs to fit into the deal flow. That'...

Effect Of Immigration On High-end Commercial Real Estate Development

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2015-11-22 23:33:58

EB-5 is the designation for an Immigration ruling that offers green card (permanent residency permit) to immigrants who invest at least $500,000 in job creating businesses in the United State. Major ...

Property Comparable Data

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2015-11-18 06:21:21

We've seen some great success with folks using the CIMLS.com Comps Data we made available over the last few months, so now we are expanding the offering. In addition to the vital data we are now runn...

Following Up On Leads

Posted by CIMLS Staff on 2015-11-13 22:42:32

Since we introduced the Leads and Activity Report to CIMLS.com our members have been making good use of this system to reach out to other members who expressed interest in their properties. Through w...