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A recent article in National Real Estate Investor described the rate of bank failures at an alarming pace. In fact the research firm Foresight Analytics reports that loan defaults are at an all time 18 year high.
As was recently echoed by Brian Pretti of Mechanics Bank, the worst part [...]

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ANNOUNCING my first meetup for commercial real estate investors! I formed a meetup group on meetup.com called Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Group Investors.

My goal is to share basic commercial real estate principals as they apply to buying commercial property, specifically buying apartments. A brief real estate analysis [...]

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As owners of commercial real estate, East Bay commercial real estate specifically, you are no doubt aware of market rents and vacancy levels. Recently the trend has been a mild deterioration in rents coupled with a mild deterioration in vacancy. During the last Rental Housing Association of Northern Alameda [...]

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Commercial Real Estate forecasts are always interesting to me, especially when presented by someone not selling a product or service. At the East Bay CREW meeting, 2010 President Tillie Ross of Old Republic Title introduced her guest speaker, Brian Pretti, CFA, CFP and senior Vice President of Mechanics Bank. [...]

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs- that’s how we will exit this recession/recovery! Unfortunately, the numbers from the East Bay Economic Development Alliance indicated a protracted stay in this recovery trench. The trend is headed in the wrong direction, thankfully, the total loss of jobs for the East Bay was only 400. [...]