This post originally appeared on the Developers & Chains website and is republished with permission.

At the beginning and end, real estate is a local business

There are many advantages of using a professional retail broker:

Welcome to the third, of our four part series on Canada's Changing Retail Environment. We will be exploring the current trends in marketing and development for retail and how these changes are affecting Canada and Manitoba. In part one, we addressed How Retail is Changing and in part two we discussed how those changes are Shaping Development.

Welcome to the second part, of our four part series on Canada's Changing Retail Environment. We will be exploring the current trends in marketing and development for retail and how these changes are affecting Canada and Manitoba. If you missed last week's blog, you can view Part 1 - How Retail is Changing here. 

Welcome to the first part, of our four part series on Canada's Changing Retail Environment. We will be exploring the current trends in marketing and development for retail and how these changes are affecting Canada and Manitoba.

What should everyone know about Property Management?

The best way to learn is to teach. I have been teaching for the CCIM Institute for 35 years, and it has accelerated my knowledge of commercial real estate more than I ever could have imagined. In this time, I have witnessed the non-existence of commercial real estate (CRE) education, and seen what CRE education has grown to. As a CCIM instructor, I have had the opportunity to travel around the world, and the chance to spend time with incredible colleagues and students.

I was given the topic of “Why Collaboration is Critical in the Commercial Real Estate World” and I really had no idea where to start. Yes I know that collaboration is a positive thing – I love when my peers willingly give me their notes for financial accounting that they spent all semester slaving over while I binge watched Keeping Up With the Kardashians – but collaboration specifically in the CRE world? No clue.