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At Sparacino Realty Advisors, your goals drive our strategy. We prioritize your unique needs to ensure project success. Contact us today for guidance.
Our number one priority is to understand your situation.
Therefore, we put a typical broker’s agenda aside to ask you smart questions that lead to smart decisions:
What’s best for you right now? Where do you want to be in your future? What’s holding you back from securing what you want and need?
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— Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Our priority is to make sure you feel you know all of the options available to you, so you can act when you’re ready.
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We base our brokerage services on our intimate knowledge and detailed understanding of you and your assets.
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Due to our mastery of real estate, investments, capital markets, and construction, we are available to consult on a range of issues
Anyone can sell real estate, but
not everyone can properly advise.
Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood. Once we build a relationship of trust with you, we perform an industry-leading strategic analysis of your situation. Here are a few things our analysis considers:
Where you are now, and what factors are affecting you
Where you want to go
The choices available to you right now and the implications of those choices
It is only after doing this deep dive that we recommend the next step you can take to control your future.
Commercial Real Estate is constantly changing. We track those changes for you and provide you with institutional-quality advisory updates.
We tailor these updates to your unique situation, centered around what could affect you and your ability to reach your goals.
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Leave Your Heirs With Assets Not Liabilities
Sparacino Realty wants to help you get real about the future of your commercial real estate properties. Thinking about what will happen to your investments post-mortem is never an easy conversation, but it’s a necessary one. For your heirs, inheriting..
Let’s Get Real About The Future of Your Commercial Real Estate Properties
You want to leave your heirs with assets, not liabilities. Even if you leave them with a meticulously maintained trophy, multi-family cash cow, they might view it as a liability regardless. To put it frankly: they’ll probably want to sell..
The Best Business Insights I’ve Absorbed Over Time
My past life in private equity taught me a few things about accelerating performance. Once I rerouted into commercial real estate, I became even more obsessive about establishing a mindset that is not only results-oriented but resilient. As your commercial..
Weekly Roundup – October 4th, 2021
Another week, more attempts to accommodate the housing crisis. California’s eviction moratorium ends, mortgage rates finally rise above the 3% mark after a seven-week flatline, and Newsom signs bills upon bills to stimulate new development. Read more below. What you..
My Past Life in Private Equity: An Interview with Christopher Sparacino
Starting as a part-time sales associate for Allied Home Mortgage Capital in 2006 and advancing to an analyst for a small private equity fund focused on the acquisition of distressed residential and commercial whole loans in 2009 –– Christopher Sparacino’s..
Weekly Roundup – October 11th, 2021
Here we go again. This week’s CRE news roundup is archetypically Californian: Tesla announces that they will relocate their headquarters to Austin, a new split-roll tax ballot initiative threatens to impact multifamily properties adversely, and stringent eviction restrictions persist despite..
“Change Is The Only Constant in Life”
Cliches become cliches for a reason: their pithiness provokes more thought than one would expect from a string of just three to five words. That’s why I’m not ashamed to launch my favorite: change is the only constant in life,..
Weekly Roundup – October 18th, 2021
The middle of October brings numbers and news both encouraging and expected. The NY Times reframes the gloomy September jobs report, multifamily metrics break decades-old records in Q3, and a Medium article deftly disproves the TikTok-spurred frenzy over whether or..
The Four Pillars of Change
Last week, I gave you an optimistic and esoteric take on change. This week, I’m back to build on that rant with some actionable advice. Change doesn’t have to be a catalyst for panic. Yes, sometimes having the epiphany that..
Weekly Roundup – October 25th, 2021
This past week brought good news on the economy’s health, but bad news on the inflationary front; initial jobless claims down, existing home sales up…but inflation may cause the Fed to increase the fed funds rates, and mortgage rates are..
Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2021
Third-quarter brought $193 billion in commercial property purchases –– the highest ever. But some remain apprehensive that this trend is similar to the four-year-long housing bubble that popped with the 2008 financial crisis and ruined, well, everything. Mortgage rates continue..
Weekly Roundup – November 5, 2021
After a couple weeks of discouraging numbers and resounding “oofs,” I’m happy to announce that optimism abounds this week. Growth has slowed, but rents are still rising. Mortgage loan application volume ticked down, but the experts still believe that all..
Weekly Roundup – November 12th, 2021
A little chaos, a little consistency. Inflation hits a three-decade high of 6.2%, but mortgage rates stay stuck in the mud for the first time, well, ever. Weekly initial unemployment claims continue to decrease along with mortgage delinquencies. Bill McBride..
Weekly Roundup – November 19th, 2021
Turns out this period of inflation wasn’t just a phase. The Wall Street Journal tells us where inflation is highest, and Paul Weisman attempts to explain why it’s so high and when it will all end. Is 1970’s stagflation back?..
The Dangers of Mispricing a Deal
When you go too high, you may think you’re setting yourself up to make a hearty profit but what you’re really doing is leaving money on the table. Commercial real estate is part art, part science, and part madness ––..
Keep Asking Questions. It’s Good For You.
In my last post, we talked about how to avoid disaster by tuning into what the market is telling you and asking the right questions before pricing your commercial property. In both commercial real estate and life, questions are one..
Current Risk Factors for Commercial Real Estate in 2022
As we enthusiastically slam the door on 2021, hopes that we would be doing the same on COVID-19 have dwindled. Omicron and Delta have corrupted the near-term outlook as mask mandates, vaccination, and social distancing requirements continue to impact commercial..
Weekly Roundup – January, 28th 2022
And –– we’re back! After a brief intermission, I’ve dethawed myself just in time to be the bearer of both good news and bad. A fresh wave of COVID spurs new aid for struggling homeowners and inspires L.A. Country to..
Weekly Roundup – February 4th, 2022
Slip, fall, dump: these are the adjectives ringing in this February’s real estate news. Mortgage rates slip after a month-long rise, California falls behind in home-price gains (has The Golden State lost allure?), and another tech giant decreases its San..
Four Strategies for Successful Commercial Real Estate Investing
Maybe you jumped to this post because you remember the reality check I gave you last month regarding the biggest risk factors facing commercial real estate in 2022. Perhaps you’re only here because a friend dropped you the link, or..
Weekly Roundup – February 11th, 2022
We have a bit of a mixed bag this week. Inflation spikes more than expected, adding urgency to the Feds’ plans to raise interest rates. Mortgage loan application volume drops, but foreign investment in U.S. commercial property soars to nearly..
Weekly Roundup – February 18th, 2022
This week, “faster” was the FOMC’s buzzword as benchmark mortgage rates and inflation continue to accelerate. Meanwhile, a Jewish Community Campus sets its sights on the Nestle Dreyer office complex. The infamous K Street Flats become part of an emerging..
It’s been a while…
What have I been up to? Funny you ask. I’ve moved up to South Lake Tahoe, got a dog, am still doing real estate in the Bay Area, and building an application that will potentially revolutionize my business. It’s been..
Cold Calling Sucks.
Cold calling. It sucks. Most people hate it. I look at it as offering an olive branch to property owners. Sometimes, they take it because they need help, and sometimes I get shut down because I’ve been written off as..
Either the smartest or dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life…
Like the title suggests, this new venture I started will either be the dumbest thing I’ve ever done, or the smartest thing I’ve ever done. Real estate brokers use a lot of different tools. Phone, Email, a CRM (that isn’t..
US Housing Affordability Worsens to New Record Low on High Rates
Interesting article from Bloomberg about housing affordability in the US. See the link here.
Taking a break from Commercial Real Estate Brokerage
Hi All, I dislike it when people don’t keep up on blogs. I am an offender in my own eyes and I apologize to you, the reader if you feel the same way. The truth is that I’ve decided to..