Baton Rouge Industrial Market Insights

The industrial sector continues to be a bright spot in the Baton Rouge commercial real estate landscape, despite concerns around rising interest rates, surging inflation, and economic uncertainty. Key fundamentals are strong, including low vacancy rates, rising market rent rates, and decreasing cap rates. Today’s sky-rocketing e-commerce sales, coupled with recent supply chain issues, have …

Stirling Properties Mobile Office Market Survey 2018

Stirling Properties is pleased to release our Mobile Office Market Survey for 2018. The assessment—compiled by Jill Meeks and Jack Conger, Sales & Leasing Executives with Stirling Properties—reiterates the continued growth rate of the Mobile area, particularly among the industrial sector. The office segment remains stable, with office investment activity for both the Central Business District (CBD) and West …

Retail Market Survey: Shreveport-Bossier City, LA

Stirling Properties releases its Shreveport-Bossier City Retail Market Survey for mid-year 2018.   According to the assessment—compiled by Stacy Odom and Karen McElroy, Broker Associates with Stirling Properties—the Shreveport–Bossier City retail sector is currently in the midst of a recovery phase. After experiencing a period of increased retail vacancy, the area is seeing the entry of new discount …

Consumers Still ♥ Brick-and-Mortar

Valentine’s Day has come and gone—and it was retailers who were feeling the love this year. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), early sales projections leading into the holiday were estimated to reach a near record of $19.6 billion, an increase from $18.2 billion last year. U.S. consumers individually were expected to spend an average …

2017 Office Market Survey: Mobile CBD & West Mobile, AL

Stirling Properties is pleased to present the 2017 year-end Mobile Office Market Survey. This report, compiled by Jack Conger and Jill Meeks, Sales & Leasing Executives in our Mobile office, is intended to track average rental rates, occupancy rates, and average absorption rates for West Mobile and the downtown Central Business District (CBD) on office …

Shreveport-Bossier City Retail Market Survey Mid-Year 2017

Stirling Properties is pleased to present the Shreveport-Bossier City Retail Market Survey for the Mid-Year of 2017.  This report, compiled by Stacy Odom and Karen McElroy, Broker Associates of our Shreveport office, is intended to give the reader a broad understanding of the market as well as specific information about the available square footage, occupancy and rental rates of each retail …

Major Economic Win for the Greater New Orleans Region

DXC Technology to create 2,000 high-paying jobs. The greater New Orleans region is celebrating a monumental economic win with the announcement that DXC Technology will establish a Digital Transformation Center in New Orleans’s Central Business District. (The site location will be finalized and announced soon.) The new Digital Transformation Center is expected to create 2,000 …

Shreveport-Bossier City Retail Market Survey July 2017

Stirling Properties is pleased to present the semi annual Shreveport-Bossier City Retail Market Survey. This report, compiled by Stacy Odom and Karen McElroy,  of our Shreveport office, is intended to give the reader a broad understanding of the market as well as specific information about the available square footage, occupancy and rental rates of each retail center greater than twenty thousand (20,000) …

5 Dos and Don’ts of Reaching Generation Z

We’ve all read numerous statistics, studies, and articles regarding the infamous “Millennials.” Over the last few years, this generation has reshaped the way we do business and even how we interact and communicate with one another. One major industry that has been significantly impacted by the Millennial generation is commercial real estate, especially the retail …

President’s Message: The Death Knell of Retail Real Estate Is Exaggerated

I am sure you have all read attention-grabbing news headlines such as these and share the same concerns regarding the future of retail real estate. In this new era of constant access to millions of digital media streams, dramatic headlines cut through the clutter and generate more attention. Drama sells. But despite all the negativity …