Archive for April, 2011

Writing Successful Commercial Property Listings For the Market

Do not simply List the Features, State the Benefits of your Commercial Property

When writing commercial property listings for the UK market, be sure to state the benefits of your property rather than simply a list of features, the benefits are the specific things that your perspective buyer will gain from having your industrial real estate. Having this in mind when writing your listings, or making sure your commercial real estate brokers do, will create more emotional and compelling listings. Always remember that people will always buy with their hearts and rationalize later. For this reason, you must capture their emotions with all the benefits of the commercial property for sale; of course, you will include the features as well, so that later on when they are rationalizing they can also check that you had the features are they were looking for.

Always ask them to Contact You for the Price for Your Commercial Property Listings

In your advertisements, be sure to ask the buyer to contact you for the price. This opens up a channel of communication that allows you to speak to them and figure out exactly what they are looking for, communication is an important element in any real estate commercial listing. This prevents you from losing the custom of people who simply scan through a commercial property list looking for the cheapest price. By not being so upfront, you instantly make your listing stand out from the others and make it onto more shortlists. Read the rest of this entry »

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Commercial Property is More Stable than Residential Property

The current economic climate in the UK has meant that residential house prices are in freefall, the same fate, however, has not befallen the commercial property market. Although industrial real estate will suffer when residential real estate suffers, it does not do so to such an extreme. This is largely because people do not make a commercial property investment emotionally; therefore, prices are very rarely artificially inflated.

Commercial Tenants are More Responsible than Most Residential Tenants

If you have ever known anyone that has invested in the buy to let market you will probably have heard a few stories about “nightmare tenants”. This is not something you have to concern yourself with regarding your commercial property lease, you will be renting to companies and businessmen who for the most part will be very respectful of your property and certainly will not be throwing any wild parties there. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why Invest in Commercial Properties Instead of Single Family Homes

While there are many people who seem to believe that investing in residential real estate and single-family homes is the way to go, investing in commercial properties is much better. Instead of focusing your real estate investing on residential properties focusing on commercial properties is a better option for a variety of reasons.

First of all, when it comes to investing in commercial properties, you will not have to worry about personally qualifying for a loan. The property itself qualifies for the loan. You usually will not have to worry about personally guaranteeing the loans when it comes to investing in commercial properties. Non-recourse financing is the type of financing most often used for commercial real estate investing. If your loan is foreclosed on, the bank will take the property, but they can’t come after you personally. Also, it will never affect your personal credit score.

You will also have the opportunity to deal with professional tenants when it comes to investing in commercial properties, instead of dealing with the tenants that come with residential properties, which is a huge benefit. Read the rest of this entry »

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