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Mark Gilman

Benzinga Editor

About

Mark Gilman is a veteran reporter and public relations strategist who writes for Benzinga from his Detroit area office. He’s also the owner/president of Pitchnoise Communications. A former PR strategist for several Fortune 100 companies and U.S. Navy veteran, Mark is also a licensed real estate agent and specializes in covering commercial real estate and residential home investment news. A hockey geek, he founded and was the original owner of the Motor City Hockey Club (USPHL), is a board member of National FCA Hockey and a former Director with the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association.
March 31, 2023 11:58 AM
As boats get bigger, more expensive and more powerful, owners are grappling with where to park them — a problem commercial real estate investors ...
March 28, 2023 4:39 PM
We could be looking at the most extensive banking crisis since the meltdown in 2008. With U.S. banks SVB and Signature collapsing, Republic Bank teete ...
March 27, 2023 1:16 PM
Multifamily properties experienced unprecedented growth in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It was the best year for multifamily housing inv ...
March 27, 2023 1:06 PM
With the commercial real estate sector suffering from continually rising interest rates, insurance and taxes, industrial land and properties continue ...
March 27, 2023 12:18 PM
Whether you own an office or your commercial real estate (CRE) investment motivation is leading you to buy one, the overriding question affecting futu ...
March 17, 2023 9:55 AM
The failed Silicon Valley and Signature banks both showed commercial real estate (CRE) holdings on their books, generating concern from the sector.&nb ...
March 17, 2023 9:50 AM
A true passive and steady but slow investment vehicle in the commercial real estate sector continues to be manufactured housing.  The sector is, ...
March 17, 2023 9:46 AM
While mortgage rates may have dipped slightly this week due to several bank failures, five consecutive weeks of increases have undone the temporary de ...
March 15, 2023 2:56 PM
The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market was quiet at the end of 2022, but there’s hope that 2023 will be a better year.  But the more ...
March 13, 2023 6:54 PM
A second bank has folded, and the tension is increasing in the U.S. banking industry.  It’s also stunned the commercial real estate (CRE) i ...
March 09, 2023 2:04 PM
At the end of 2022, credit card and auto delinquency rates continued to rise — at a rate 80 points higher than in the fourth quarter of 2021.&nb ...
March 09, 2023 1:56 PM
Most private investors anticipate raising more equity in the next two years than they did in the five-year period ending in August 2022, according to ...
March 07, 2023 2:42 PM
Commercial real estate investors are cautiously optimistic, according to a recent survey from the real estate arm of global law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP ...
March 07, 2023 2:38 PM
Real estate lawyers are an interesting breed. By law, they are required in several states to represent clients in a real estate closing, and in eight ...
March 03, 2023 12:34 PM
The last two years have been exceptional for multifamily investors. But, despite the demand fueled by a lack of home inventory and rising mortgage int ...
March 03, 2023 12:16 PM
A well-told saying holds that if you don’t like your homeowners association (HOA), get on the board.  But those who don’t have the ti ...
March 01, 2023 1:54 PM
New numbers from Forrester Research estimate that 72% of retail sales will be made in physical store locations in 2023, a statistic most wouldn’ ...
February 24, 2023 1:09 PM
A study released this week by lease accounting software company Visual Lease found that 70% of the senior real estate executives polled say their clie ...
February 24, 2023 1:00 PM
You’ve undoubtedly heard stories about how some successful entrepreneurs launched a business on a cocktail napkin at a bar. But for two guys who ...
February 24, 2023 12:45 PM
The good news for multifamily investors is that their properties could be resilient to significant monthly rental price shifts because of the continui ...
February 22, 2023 4:34 AM
If you own a home or have been interested in buying one, you are aware of the sizeable U.S. residential real estate downturn. Sales numbers are droppi ...
February 20, 2023 1:46 PM
Location and market conditions continue to drive the self-storage investment sector.  Locations where housing sales have stalled have been the fi ...
February 20, 2023 12:55 PM
Construction starts for multifamily housing projects with five units or more fell 5.4% to a rate of 457,000 units in January, according to the latest ...
February 20, 2023 12:40 PM
A 5% ownership block in a commercial real estate sector would rarely cause a blip on the government radar.  But that’s not the case with Am ...
February 15, 2023 10:27 AM
While industry analysts report that many regional and community banks posted strong lending numbers at the end of 2022, the Financial Accounting Stand ...
February 14, 2023 12:15 PM
If your local car wash changed ownership before the end of 2022, it wasn’t an isolated situation.  Net lease car wash transactions, at an a ...
February 14, 2023 11:54 AM
In the first half of last year, more than 50,000 manufactured homes were shipped across the country — a 31% year-over-year increase, according t ...
February 13, 2023 4:23 PM
There’s a great line in the classic movie “When Harry Met Sally” when Billy Crystal’s character Harry reveals that his secret ...
February 09, 2023 3:40 PM
Commercial real estate (CRE) prices dropped again in January, according to the latest Green Street Commercial Property Price Index. The all-property i ...
February 09, 2023 3:29 PM
While the pandemic and inflation have had a well-documented effect on multifamily housing, investment firms’ focus on properties away from the c ...