What CRE Owners Need to Watch in the Second Half of 2026
As the commercial real estate market moves into the second half of 2026, many property owners are shifting focus from short-term uncertainty toward long-term positioning. While activity levels remain steady across many sectors, today’s market continues to demand a more strategic and proactive approach to ownership, leasing, operations, and capital planning. Economic conditions, tenant expectations, […]
Why Smaller Industrial Spaces Remain Highly Competitive
For years, much of the attention in industrial real estate centered around large distribution facilities and massive logistics hubs. While those projects continue to shape the broader market, another segment remains incredibly active – smaller industrial spaces. Across the Chicago suburbs spaces under 50,000 square feet continue to see strong demand from tenants, owner-users, and […]
3 Features Tenants Will Pay More For
In today’s commercial real estate market, tenants are being more selective about where, and how, they occupy space. Whether evaluating industrial, office, or retail properties, many users are prioritizing functionality, efficiency, and overall experience over simply finding the lowest lease rate. As a result, certain property features continue to command stronger interest, shorter vacancy periods, […]
Property Tax Appeals: Why Timing Matters
As activity picks up across the commercial real estate market, many owners are focused on leasing velocity, occupancy, and capital planning. At the same time, one of the most direct opportunities to improve a property’s financial performance is often overlooked – property tax appeals. For owners, investors, and asset managers, the start of the appeal […]
Caton Commercial Real Estate Group Acquires St. Charles Appraisal Company
Caton Commercial Real Estate Group completed the acquisition of Cornerstone Realty Advisors, Inc, a St. Charles based appraisal company, in a strategic move towards stabilizing revenues and providing comprehensive client support services. Cornerstone will act as the appraisal arm for Caton Commercial, operating as its own entity to maintain continuity with existing staff, operations, and […]
Caton Commercial Expands Brokerage and Property Management Teams
A Company To Watch – Caton Commercial Real Estate Group continues to build its presence as a leading commercial real estate brokerage and property management firm, adding several new members to the team. Five commercial brokers and two support staff members joined the brokerage company and Caton Property Management has added three new team members. Commercial brokers, Fatina Sayegh, […]
Red, White, and Drive-Thru
If asked to name the top five words synonymous with July, most people would answer ‘hotdogs, hamburgers, apple pie, and fireworks.’ Drive-thrus may not be on the list, but they have been an American staple since the 1950s. They also happen to have their very own day every July 24th as restaurants across the nation […]
Commercial Real Estate Investment 101
Commercial real estate encompasses multiple property types including retail, office, industrial, multi-family and special use properties such as storage facilities and hotels. You may also see the term mixed-use which refers to a property with a mix of different uses such as first floor retail with apartments on the upper floors. What is an investment […]
COVID-19 & Commercial Real Estate: What will 2021 look like?
As businesses continue to shape and implement their office reentry plans in Q2 2021, there are many signs of resilience and renewal. The hard lessons learned through a year of severe loss and disruption are guiding decisions to lease office space, open new retail concepts, and find the best warehouse locations for last mile delivery. […]
Increase Investor Profits with Professional Apartment Property Management
Apartment investors purchase property with the goal of generating income. There are two sides to income generation for an investment property. First, the owner can take a share of the annual operating profit generated by the investment, and second, the owner may profit from increasing the market value of the property beyond inflation alone. Increasing […]