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2018 MIDWEST REAL ESTATE NEWS COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE – Mark W. Szerlag
Always Be Closing. Szerlag has spent his entire career with the Thomas Duke Company and year after year he has been a top producer in his market. With more t…
Race to the Finish Line
Remove a deed restriction, add a deed restriction, and close the deal in two weeks. Those were just some of the circumstances facing Thomas Duke Brokers Fran…
In Multi-Family Its Win-Win
The multi-family market is the setting for a lot of today’s win-win success stories. Take this recent sale of a 38-unit multi-family property completed by Ad…
Tried-and-True+New = Success
At the Thomas Duke Company, we know that the best commercial real estate service adds the best of the new to the tried-and-true. A client asked broker Bill M…
Negative + Creative = Positive
The elderly owners of a South Lyon shopping center came to the Thomas Duke Company ready to retire from the work of managing multi-tenant investment property…
Cap Rates Explained
Why Do Cap Rates Matter? At the Thomas Duke Company, we strive to provide each client with the best information available as we guide a transaction from star…
Attractive….and Complicated
Attractive … and complicated. That describes certain cars, relationships, and commercial real estate transactions. Eric Szerlag of the Thomas Duke Company wa…
Resist the Rush
We see it too often. In a rush to get to the finish line, brokers list properties at price points much lower than what those properties could return with a w…
From Lackluster to Stellar in Chelsea
When a retail center in Chelsea lost its anchor – a Blockbuster store – the whole complex slumped. Remaining tenants saw a dramatic decline in customer traff…
From Sad to Satisfying: Turning the Story Around
It was a sad story that was getting sadder. The owner of a 30,000-square-foot office building in Brighton died suddenly. His family members, thrust into unex…
If It’s Not Effective, It’s Not Marketing
Cold calls, emails, direct mail, social media messages—marketing is central to commercial real estate success, and never have there been more marketing platf…
The Commercial Real Estate Transaction: A Play in Three Acts
Interesting characters, conflict, surprises both happy and discouraging, unexpected endings—commercial real estate transactions have all the elements that ma…