Retail Commercial Real Estate Blog

5 Ways to Modernize Your Retail Tenant Search

With retail sales and foot traffic both trending upward, 2022 is on track to be a comeback year for retail real estate. Shopping center owners, investors, and brokers will be well poised to capitalize on the industry’s expansion by embracing modern property management.  This year, retailers will open more stores than they close for the […]

Get more done with Retailsphere's Pipeline Tasks

Recent updates to Retailsphere’s task management tools make getting more done in your day even easier. While our Pipeline Management has allowed you to create tasks for a while, we recently made updates that help you stay on top of everything you need to accomplish to close more deals, more quickly.  Easy Reordering Don’t depend […]

How Frankel Development uses Retailsphere to Move Deals Forward

When it comes to securing the right tenant for their vacancies, Frankel Development turns to Retailsphere first. Why? When talking to Diandra Breen (image left), Sales Associate at Frankel, she said “Retailsphere helps [us] secure contact information that increases chances of moving a deal forward.”  That typically means securing 5-10 targeted and strong candidates for […]

Close more deals with a Kanban view

The process of lead nurturing can be one of the most rewarding aspects of any sales job, but especially in commercial real estate. By the time you have a signed lease in hand, You've had to search for prospects, built relationships, negotiation lease terms, execute a letter of intent, all before a signature is on […]

Its time to ditch excel for modern pipeline management

There’s something that a lot of commercial real estate professionals need to hear: using Excel to manage your deal flow is costing you money. We know old habits die hard, but it’s time to modernize your pipeline management. You’re missing out on opportunities and falling behind your competition if you continue to use outdated tools. […]

Tips for taking your CRE canvassing online

While canvassing has always been an integral part of the commercial real estate prospecting process, COVID really has changed everything, including how many people start their research. With various shutdowns as a result of the pandemic, your days in the office limited and in-person canvassing has become more difficult. If this sounds like you, it […]

5 Reasons you need a Commercial Real Estate CRM

You may be realizing you’ve missed several outreach opportunities. Or you have so many tenant prospects in your rolodex that a few of them haven't heard from you in weeks (or even months). Even worse, you find you’re spending more time on looking for prospect and client information instead of actually using that information.  Whether […]

5 Coffee Shops Expanding in 2021 - Happy #NationalCoffeeDay

September 29 is #nationalcoffeeday in the US and Canada! Whether you take it black or have a yearly countdown for the first PSL of the season, coffee is the most popular drink in the world and we’re ready to celebrate. 

The Retail Boom is Here (Really!)

It’s been a long, tough road back for the retail sector, which struggled even before COVID-19 accelerated consumers’ reliance on e-commerce. But with weaker players purged — and landlords right-sizing rents — for the first time in years, retailers are opening more stores than they’re closing. Based on outreach by the Retailsphere research team, it […]

Expanding Retailers in Ohio

Home of the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame, its own unique brand of barbecue, and plenty of other tourist attractions, we all know Ohio is way more than cornfields. But when you take a look at the plans for retail expansion in 2021, you may just start singing “OHIO rocks!” The following 4 retailers […]

Top 5 Food Halls to Fill Retail Space

Food halls are trending. If you’ve never heard of a food hall, don’t be so quick to pass it off as your everyday food court, because they’re so much more than that. Food halls are filled with unique, local restaurants with food made from scratch. Some even feature dessert stops, butchers, bakeries, markets, shops and […]
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