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Commercial real estate decisions are rarely simple, and they are almost never cheap. In Stratford, Ontario, where the market includes a mix of downtown mixed-u…

Commercial property owners in Stratford often assume appraisal is a straightforward exercise: inspect the building, pull a few comparables, arrive at a number.…

Commercial property value is rarely a simple number pulled from a spreadsheet. In St. Thomas, Ontario, it is usually the product of local market knowledge, car…

Commercial real estate decisions often look straightforward from a distance. A building has tenants, rent rolls, operating costs, and a sale price. A parcel of…

Commercial property owners in St. Thomas often focus on the visible parts of ownership, rent rolls, vacancy, deferred maintenance, financing costs, and whether…

Commercial real estate decisions rarely fail because someone lacked ambition. More often, they go sideways because the numbers underneath the decision were wea…

Hiring an appraiser for a commercial property sounds straightforward until money is on the line. Then the details matter quickly. A small difference in valuati…

Timing matters more in commercial real estate than most owners expect. I have seen two nearly identical properties in the same market produce very different ou…