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Alter condemns the assault on our democracy that occurred on January 6th.

This Op-ed originally appeared in Crain's Chicago Business

Our company was pleased this Spring to announce a 101,900 SF corporate headquarters for Nextiva, Inc., one of the nation’s largest business communications companies. The flagship facility is under construction at 9401 E. Via de Ventura in Scottsdale, Arizona, within Alter’s Riverwalk at Talking Stick office campus (www.riverwalktalkingstick.com). To mark the event, Alter and Nextiva […]

The net lease sector is showing no signs of slowing down in 2018, especially when it comes to investor interest. The United States net lease transaction volume, including office, industrial, and retail properties, increased 3.3% from 2016 to 2017. Investment sales volume in the single-tenant retail category was just shy of $3.2 billion in the […]

Investors and tenants are looking at mid-rise office buildings as the “future of office investment.” But what advantages do mid-rise offices provide investors that high-rise office building do not?

What does the changing of the guard within America’s workforce mean for the office market? Firstly, the retirement of the largest generation in history – the Baby Boomers at 80 million – has caused some to resign themselves to the fact that we will be needing less office space. But the reality is more complicated because people are working into their retirement years: the raw numbers say that, as of 2016, nearly 9 million people aged 65 or older were still on the job.

One of the biggest changes we can expect to see in commercial real estate this year is a not-so-gradual shift of focus from gateway markets to secondary and tertiary markets.

Chances are that if you work in commercial real estate and pay attention to the most recent trends and innovations in the industry, you have read articles discussing blockchain or at least have heard the term being bandied about.

Electric vehicles, or EV, are quickly becoming more and more popular across the United States with 2016 seeing a whopping 25% increase in EV sales from the previous year. Today, more than 360,000 EVs are on the road.

The Federal Reserve has announced that yet another interest rate increase is in the works, as the U.S. economy shows steady growth with 138,000 jobs added in May. While home mortgages continue to slow, lending in the commercial real estate industry is actually continuing to grow despite these changes.