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Most real estate professionals operate in a particular asset class because it is the one they know best.  Whether they happen to have been exposed to it first, or cut their teeth on it through experience, it seems to hold true.  But lets be objective here for a moment.  After having suffered what seems to be the worst of the economic downturn, and its subsequent impact on all types of commercial real estate, we sit in a very unique spot in terms of being able to assess which asset class is the most recession proof.  Let’s take a look at a few of the top candidates: Read the rest of this entry »

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I am certain most of our readers are aware of the glut of commercial space that remains vacant in today’s wiltered economy.  We’ve even shown YouTube clips on this very site of people simply driving down the road, capturing storefront after storefront, strip center after strip center, vacant as a Ghost town right out of the Wild West. And as retailers continue their cutbacks, more and more cities are facing their big box stores becoming “Ghostboxes.” Read the rest of this entry »

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