When I was brand new in commercial real estate brokerage, the man who was my broker, a wonderful man named Al Rose, told me that if I ever needed to sue someone to collect a commercial real estate commission, to do everything that I could to settle the matter first, rather than go the entire distance through our court system. And of course, with me being the young broker without the decades of experience that Al had within our industry, I was convinced that justice would ultimately prevail within our legal system, and that I would be vindicated, if necessary, and receive my full commission in the end...

Sometimes when you come across an off-the-market property as a commercial real estate broker, the seller will tell you that they're interested in selling the property, but they're not willing to pay you a commission. So in this situation, you'll then want to ask the seller...

When you've been around the commercial real estate industry for more than 40 years, you ideally then clearly understand that our industry moves in cycles. And as much as we don't ever want to believe that a hot market will ever slow down again, reality over the years has proven otherwise...

During this video interview, Jim Gillespie discusses how to engage in a solid commercial real estate prospecting call, including telling you what to say to the receptionist, to the decision maker, and how to leave more powerful voicemail messages, that will compel more decision makers to call you back.

I have a coaching client who has done something very successfully over the years: When an owner is about to list their property and put it on the market with another brokerage company, my client has been very successful at getting the owner to exclude from the listing the buyers he's already presented the property to, and sometimes even the buyers he still wants to present the property to also...

While it may seem a bit early to check in and see how you're already doing with respect to being on track towards accomplishing your commercial real estate goals for 2021, I find that oftentimes brokers may get soft on themselves in this arena in the early part of the year, which is why I'm checking in with you on this right now...

If you've ever wanted to get access to good, free detailed statistical and demographical information regarding what's going on in commercial real estate here in the U.S., I'm going to give you two free resources for this, both published by the National Association of Realtors...

Keeping this in mind, if you get to a point in negotiations on a property where the buyer is hesitating about moving forward on the final bottom-line price that the seller is now willing to sell the property for, I'm going to give you a statement to utilize that may be helpful to you...