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Single Family Homes
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Additional Year End 2004 Stats
  • Actual Home Sales:  5,000 (highest ever)
  • Total Volume:  $650 million (highest ever and highest average sales price ever)
  • Current Available Inventory:  approximately 1,600 residential home listings (lower than normal)
  • Above figures provided by Coastal Bend MLS.
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Where Are Buyers Coming From?
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Retail Market
  • Positive home market
  • Average Lease Rates:  $18 to $22 per square foot, triple net
  • Big Box – one store locations.
  • Other area Big Boxes effect sales in Corpus Christi.
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Apartments
  • Four new apartment projects –
    • Saratoga & Patti
    • Curtis Clark & South Staples
    • IH 37 & Rand Morgan
    • Cimarron between Lipes & Saratoga


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Rent vs. Buy


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Office Market
  • Central Business District
    • Average Rates: $12-$18/psf
    • Expenses: $6-$7/psf
  • Suburban District
    • Average Rates: $12-$14/psf
    • Expenses: $6-$7/psf
  • No new product – need $20/psf rates
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CBD Office Buildings
  • One Shoreline Plaza
  • Built 1986
  • Cost $60,000,000
  • Sold 1995: $12,500,000
  • Sold 2000: $26,000,000
  • Foreclosed 2004
  • Frost/TCB Building
  • Built 1983
  • Cost $45,000,000
  • Sold 2004:  $18,000,000
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Medical Office
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Industrial Market

  • Service & Distribution
    • Average Lease Rates:  $2.75 to $4.00 (depending on building square footage)
    • Total Market: 18 million square feet
    • Occupancy Rate:  80%
    • Figures based on year end 2004
    • No new construction


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Ranch & Vacant Land

  • Values Going Up


  • Brush Land In Demand
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Investment Real Estate
  • Cap Rates:


  • Net Income = Value
  •        Rate


  • Cap rates are at an all time low
  • Return on investments are lower
  • Sales prices are higher
  • Options to invest are fewer
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Selling Corpus Christi
  • Tierra Grande Magazine
  • Kiplinger Magazine


  • Example:  Padre Island
    • Increasing Values:
      • Historically from $2,500 to $4,000/ff
      • Currently from $8,000 to $12,000/ff
      • For 300 feet waterfront lots
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Predictions For 2005
  • Moderate but positive growth
  • Slightly higher interest rates
  • Home values increase at a moderate 3 to 4%
  • Toyota plant in San Antonio could have impact within a 400 mile radius for suppliers
  • Wall Street / R.E.I.T. should continue to grow
  • Look for higher land prices for vacation homes and waterfront property
  • Land values everywhere will increase
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Hot Tip

  • Buy ugly


  • Buy vacant
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