TUCSON, ARIZONA — The latest release of the Real Estate Daily News’ RED COMPs Software version 2.0 includes several new enhancements in the area of geo-coding searches. Visual design, speed, year selection and selection of most recent comps enable certain tasks to be performed up to six times faster than the previous version.

“The new features were driven by our strong focus on customers’ needs. Some of whom work from home, where internet bandwidth is often not as fast as at the office for visually demanding mapping features; and as our comps database continues to grow, now with close to 4,000 records, we never want speed to be an issue when performing certain tasks anyplace,” said Karen Schutte, Director of Research at RED Comps.

“Faster is always better, but combined with the quality of researched and confirmed  information, our comps are second to none and essential for accurate commercial real estate knowledge of the market,” says Schutte. “The collective enhancements in RED Comps 2.0 are designed to help users see at a glance the commercial sales across multiple county lines in Southern Arizona.”

New functionality also helps RED Comps users select or deselect properties allowing them to drill down for more targeted details. These along with other enhancements help users optimize the sales research knowledge found only in the RED Comps database from duplexes to the largest commercial property sales – we have them all.

For additional information, or for a free trial run of RED Comps 2.0, contact us at Real Estate Daily News 520.877.2656 or REDailyNews@outlook.com

TUCSON, AZ — The Southern Arizona CCIM Chapter, a group of approximately 150 members focused on commercial real estate, recently elected its Board of Directors and Committee Members for 2017.

CCIM Institute is commercial real estate’s most influential professional organization, with members closing $200 billion annually in commercial real estate deals. For more than 40 years, the Institute has been building opportunities through its respected education program, led by established practitioners. A CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) is a recognized expert in the commercial and investment real estate industry. The designation process ensures that CCIMs are proficient not only in theory, but also in practice. This elite corps of CCIMs includes brokers, leasing professionals, investment counselors, asset managers, appraisers, corporate real estate executives, property managers, developers, institutional investors, commercial lenders, attorneys, bankers, and other allied professionals.

“I cannot say enough good things about the CCIM Organization and the volunteers who consistently give their time and expertise to our local chapter,” said Melissa Lal next year’s president. “My career in commercial real estate started with CCIM and has grown as a result of my involvement over the past 10 years. It is an honor for me to serve as next year’s president, to have the chance to give back to the organization that has given so much to me.”

New Southern Arizona CCIM Board of Directors follows:

2017 Southern Arizona CCIM Board of Directors:

• President 2017: Melissa Lal, CCIM, Larsen Baker, LLC
• Past President: Greg Boccardo, CCIM, Boccardo Realty
• President Elect/Vice President: Craig Finfrock, CCIM, Commercial Retail Advisors
• Treasurer: Gary Andros, CCIM, Andros Commercial Properties
• Secretary: Suzie Ong, CCIM, BroadStone Commercial

Standing Committees

Budget Committee Members:

• Melissa Lal, CCIM
• Craig Finfrock, CCIM
• Greg Boccardo, CCIM
• Gary Andros, CCIM

Candidate Guidance: James Kai, CCIM

Community Service:

• Carley Aden, candidate
• Brooke Bernal, candidate

Designation Promotion Committee:

• Dave Blanchette, CCIM
• James Robertson, CCIM

Education/Program Committee:

• James P. Robertson, CCIM
• Melissa Lal, CCIM

Forecast Committee:

• Craig Finfrock, CCIM
• Melissa Lal, CCIM
• Suzie Ong, CCIM
• Mark Hays, candidate

Legislative Liaison:

• Greg Boccardo, CCIM
• James Robertson, CCIM
• Jason Wong, CCIM

Membership Committee:  Isaac Figuroa, candidate

Past Presidents Advisory Committee: Greg Boccardo, CCIM

Schlorship Committee: James Robertson, CCIM

Sponsorship:

• Greg Boccardo, CCIM
• Dave Blanchette, CCIM
• Melissa Lal, CCIM

University of Arizona Outreach: Jason Wong, CCIM

Tucson City Office Subcommittee:

• Jason Wong, CCIM
• James P. Robertson, CCIM
• Craig Finfrock, CCIM
• Greg Boccardo, CCIM

Chapter Coordinator: Aaron Reid

Media/Press Coordinator: Karen Schutte

The Southern Arizona Chapter of CCIM and the Masters of Real Estate Development (MRED) hosted their first joint project of the new semester this week. CCIM and MRED began this joint project last year. This week’s presentation was held in the class of Drew Sanderford, PhD, Assistant Professor of Real Estate & Planning at the University of Arizona.

Presenters were Jason Wong, CCIM, with Red Point Development who spearheads the joint cooperative educational project, James Robertson, Jr., CCIM, with Realty Executives and Ryan Heinfeld, CCIM candidate, with Advisors in Real Estate. Also presenting to the class was yours truly, Karen Schutte, publisher of the Real Estate Daily News on “Why writing a real estate blog can be important and How Sales Comps are born”.

Larsen & Baker’s Don Baker, an MRED graduate and a CCIM candidate, added to a spirited discussion on the importance of up-to-date and accurate information in the real estate decision-making and how information comes from so many different sources these days. The media is less important than the knowledge of the person using it.

Tucson lives in the shadow of Phoenix but we also have our own story to tell, I tried to explain. The mission of the Real Estate Daily News is to tell the  stories of our community and add relevancy to our real estate market in the process. We then walked through the creation of a sales comp, from affidavit of value, through the steps to an end, usable product with the recent Tenet Purchase of Carondelet as a comp study.

Heinfeld spoke about his personal experience as a CCIM candidate and what he liked about the four core classes and the pros and cons of taking them online or in person for the professional networking between members.

Robertson expanded more on the national and international opportunities that exist within the CCIM network and Wong concluded with the local networking resources and cooperation that exists between the commercial brokers in land, office, retail or industrial markets; appraisers; developers; investments; lenders and research such as Real Estate Daily News and RED Comps, a commercial real estate sales database for Southern Arizona.