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Real Estate Strategy for Long-Term Owners – Part 5

April 21, 2016

It’s time to wrap up our strategy guide by taking a final look at the real estate options open to long-term owners.

Real Estate Strategy for Long-Term Owners – Part 4

April 4, 2016

In this installment of our series on real estate strategy for long-term owners, we focus on the sale leaseback. How it works, and whether it’s a good idea.

March 30, 2016

So far in this series, we’ve been taking a look at options available to property owners who acquired their buildings more than 15 years ago.

These are the owners who have the most to gain from a disposition of their assets, but selling has serious tax implications and exchanging can add up to little more than kicking the tax can down the road.

Refinancing at today’s low rates can unlock equity for investment elsewhere, and for some, doing nothing at all is the best strategy. Today we’re taking a close look at another option: the Installment Sale.

Real Estate Strategy for Long Term Owners – Part 2

March 21, 2016

Last week we began to take a look at the alternatives for property owners who purchased their assets more than 15 years ago.

These are the investors who have the most to gain by selling their properties, but realizing gains through a disposition also has its costs and complexities that deserve full consideration before a decision is made.

This week – two more alternatives that make good economic sense for many investors.

Real Estate Strategy for Long Term Owners – Part 1

March 9, 2016

The Orange County industrial real estate market is still on a bull run that began back in 2010 as the US economy began to recover from a systemic failure in the financial sector.

It seems like not so long ago we were bumping along a bottom and wondering whether or not the good times would ever roll again.

Well, the good times have been better than any of the experts would have thought, and the prolific run has sent investors, owner/users, tenants and buyers back to the drawing boards in terms of their real estate strategy for the future.