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Emily Line Explaines RPR Commercial to the Commercial Round Table
RPR, Realtors Property Resource, has been in formation for a few years and is ready for Prime Time! Emily Line, the Director for Commercial Services visited from Laguna Beach, California to give the Commercial Round Table group a tutorial of this web resource. RPR is a website based aggregation of real estate data with ports for both Residential and Commercial brokers that combines listing …
Ryan Heair Addresses the Commercial Round Table
Ryan Heair, the North Liberty City Administrator addressed the Iowa City Area Association of Realtors Commercial Round Table on June 11th at the Association offices at 847 Quarry Road in Coralville, Iowa. Ryan’s presentation was very thorough and highlighted many new development projects and infrastructure growth in the North Liberty, Iowa Area. The North Liberty population has grown from a very modest 4,000 people …
Jeff Joins Lepic-Kroeger, Realtors as partner
I have re-joined Lepic-Kroeger, Realtors, the largest and one of the oldest Iowa City real estate companies as a broker and partner! Lepic-Kroeger is the home to many of the areas top real estate agents, and also houses top real estate developers as well. Now, Lepic-Keorger will have the top commercial real estate team to lead sales and leasing in the area. Rachel Barnes is …
Iowa City Area – 2012, Commercial Real Estate Status and Confidence
Iowa City Area – 2012 Commercial Real Estate Status and Confidence Jeff Edberg, CCIM, SIOR In 2007 the real estate housing bubble burst followed by the collapse of the financial markets supporting unsustainably high market real estate prices. The Iowa City area is a unique metropolitan area largely due to the strong and stable influence of the University of Iowa and the University of …
Leased Investments
The Principles of Leased Investments Lepic Kroeger, Realtors Leased investments have always been strong elements of the Iowa City Commercial Real Estate and the Cedar Rapids Commercial Real Estate scene. There are great investment properties in both markets and ample high income investors with a desire to take advantage of the unique benefits a leased investment offers. …
2011 Iowa City Real Estate Recap
The leasing demand in the Iowa City Area has remained modest, yet active since the flood and financial meltdown in 2008 with some qualifications. Larger corporate expansions or relocations have often been put on hold pending perceived stability in the market. Smaller startup, expansion and relocations have been moving ahead albeit at a somewhat tepid pace.Downtown Iowa City This sector is the strongest market …
Case-Shiller Housing Value Index Blues
Case-Shiller Housing Value Index Blues The national news looks bleak with regard to home sales prices across the nation. A recent report citing the Case-Shiller Index report shows that national homes prices found a peak value in July 2006 and then fell off the cliff through the recession we were all hoping we were emerging from. Values plummeted until 2009 and started …
Iowa City Southeast Distrrict Plan
The Iowa City Southeast District Plan The new, hot topic in Iowa City planning is the Southeast Area Plan. City planners drafted a proposed plan based on public input provided through a series of community workshops and discussion forums with residents, business owners, and other interested members of the community. Areas discussed in the plan are Housing and Neighborhood Quality; Eastside Growth Area; …
New Office – New Year
2011 has begun and so has the Iowa City / Coralville Skogman Commercial office. Let’s take a look and see how both fare. I track the average home sales price, the price increase and the list price / sales price ratio as an indicator for the overall health of the Iowa City / Coralville real estate market. In the 29 years I have been …