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Coldwell Banker Commercial explores how rising insurance costs and growing climate-related risks are reshaping commercial real estate development, underwriting, and site selection across the U.S. By examining the impact of natural disasters, insurability challenges, and resilience investments, it highlights why developers, investors, and lenders are increasingly factoring insurance availability and long-term risk into real estate decisions and asset valuations.
In this episode, host Jenna Hille, Strategy & Operations Director at Coldwell Banker Commercial, sits down with Audrey Navarro, Managing Partner of Clemons Real Estate in Kansas City. A retail and investment specialist, Audrey has spent two decades building a full-service commercial firm alongside her family, with work spanning Crown Center repositioning, multifamily redevelopment, and a nonprofit specialty practice. She shares how she built WIRED — a 150-member women’s investment group where members pool capital and acquire commercial real estate together. From a $2,000 investment minimum on their first deal just West of Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, she breaks down how women are moving from the sidelines to ownership. A practical look at building wealth, community, and confidence in CRE.
This article examines the growing influence of private capital in commercial real estate as family offices, private investors, and privately controlled funds increasingly provide market liquidity amid elevated interest rates and ongoing pricing adjustments. Exploring trends in middle-market acquisitions, sector preferences, and evolving investment strategies, it highlights how private wealth is reshaping CRE transactions and positioning itself as a key driver of the industry's next growth cycle.
On this month's ICYMI we highlight media partnerships that hit the national stage, our 120th anniversary celebration and there's still time to register for CRE WIN, CREi Summit, and our Constant Contact webinar. Listen now for the full rundown!
Commercial real estate performance is increasingly shaped by local market fundamentals rather than broad national trends. Markets benefiting from job growth, population gains, and strong space demand continue to attract investment and drive transaction activity, while softer markets face more cautious capital deployment, highlighting the importance of market-specific insight when evaluating opportunities.
Commercial real estate leasing is evolving as tenants prioritize flexibility alongside traditional factors like rent and location, driving demand for adaptable lease structures across office, retail, and industrial sectors. CBC explores how shorter lease terms, expansion and contraction options, and customized agreements are reshaping negotiations and creating new opportunities for both landlords and occupiers in a dynamic market.
Commercial real estate’s 2026 recovery isn’t playing out the same way everywhere. In this episode, Jenna Hille sits down with Dan Spiegel to unpack Coldwell Banker Commercial’s 2026 Mid-Year Outlook — from the large jump in transaction volume to the widening gap between primary and secondary markets, the two-tier cap rate environment, and why owner-users and 1031 buyers are driving activity while institutional capital stays cautious. They break down sector-by-sector trends across industrial, office, retail, and multifamily, and share what CBC’s brokers are seeing on the ground that the national numbers don’t capture.
Manufactured housing is emerging as one of the most scalable and cost-effective solutions to the U.S. housing affordability crisis, yet regulatory, financing, and perception challenges continue to limit its growth. This article explores how production constraints, zoning barriers, and outdated lending structures are holding back a vital segment of the housing market despite strong demand and increasing policy support.
In this month's episode of Market Tales, recorded live from our 2026 Global Conference, I’m walking and talking with two incredible guests: Stephen Stucy and Heather Tickel. Known as “Mr. Money” in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Stephen shares how a career as a fundraising auctioneer unexpectedly opened the door to a thriving commercial real estate business. From Sumter, South Carolina, Heather reflects on the value of trusting the guidance of others and reminds us that true success is measured by the people you can celebrate it with at the end of the day. Different markets and unique journeys, yet both stories reveal a powerful common thread: success often begins with the unexpected.
Coldwell Banker Commercial Realty brokers Kathi Constanzo and Bill Ukropina closed the $6.25 million sale of a fully entitled 1.08-acre development site in Altadena, California. The future 54-unit affordable housing community is expected to prioritize families displaced by the Eaton Fire.