Farzana Kalvert's (kalvertgroup) Blog

While doing research in one of my submarkets, I found out that a developer is seeking a zoning variance in order to put low income housing in an area where the average real estate price is $2,279,097 per acre.  Condos and Single family homes in this area sell from a range of $200,000 to $1.5 mill...

In the past 8 years I have been selling real estate, one of the things I have noticed is that buyers are somewhat apprehensive about signing a Buyer's Brokerage (BB).  Our office has always instructed us to get a BB on every client before we even put them in our car.  As with most important thing...

We currently have 14 Gas station listings, 1 Tire Warehouse/Car Wash, 1 Medical Office, 4 Hotels, 1 Strip Mall, 2 Grocery Stores, and we want to unload these income producing properties! They range in price from $95,000 to $7,500,000.  They are located in Northern Georgia, mainly in MSA's of Atla...

Just wanted to get feedback as to which types of properties are recession proof, and which ones to stay away from these days.  My personal opinion at least for the Atlanta market is that multi family tends to be the type of property that thrives during a recession due mainly because people in gen...