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Marketing Advantage in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage – Use a Blog to Build Your Online Profile

As a commercial real estate agent or broker, you can use a blog as a professional and personal marketing strategy.  There are plenty of things that you can write about when it comes to your local area, your town or your city. The blog is something that you can do individually at very low cost.  […]

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The One Thing that Makes All the Difference in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

  A career in commercial real estate does not need to be complicated but it does need to be focused.  Above everything else that you do in the industry, one thing will stand ‘head and shoulders’ above everything else as a success factor. Exactly what is it that will help you convert more listings and […]

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Real Estate Agent – 7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Commercial Real Estate Database

Most commercial real estate agents will have a database.  More often than not the database they have or use will be well out of date and poorly maintained.  With all of this technology around us today you would think that the life of an agent would be easier? I have seen agent databases that are […]

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How to Hire Experienced Salespeople in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

In commercial real estate brokerage, the hiring of new salespeople will be a critical issue to support the flow of new listings and commissions into the business.  In any 12 month period, you will lose some of your sales and your administrative staff for uncontrollable reasons.  This then says that you must have a pipeline […]

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Commercial Real Estate Agent Leasing Tips and Strategies

The leasing segment of the commercial real estate market is particularly specialized.  Many agents choose only to work on leasing opportunities within their property specialty.  That being said, if property leasing is your primary source of real estate income, then you need to consider the quality of property that you work on and the clients […]

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Key Performance Indicators in Commercial Property Management

When it comes to operating a commercial property management department, you need to set some performance indicators that will help the individual managers match their services to the needs and expectations of the clients.  That being said, many clients will have particular needs when it comes to property performance, tenant mix and tenant management, reporting, […]

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6 Tips for Qualifying a Tenant in Commercial Real Estate Agency

In commercial real estate agency the tenants that you talk to must be qualified before you spend a lot of time with them.  Most tenants looking for new or alternative premises to occupy will have spoken to quite a number of local property agents; on that basis you are just another person to get information […]