Category: Market Trends

Ground Leases Explained: A Different Way to Control Commercial Real Estate

Published by Acre Commercial | October 2026 | Spokane, WA & Post Falls, ID Estimated read time: 6 minutes | Category: Deal Structure Ground Leases in Commercial Real Estate: How They Work Most commercial buyers assume that controlling a property means owning the land under it. A ground lease breaks that assumption apart. Under this […]

Industrial Condos: A Smart Entry Point for Contractors and Small Business Owners

Published by Acre Commercial | October 2026 | Spokane Valley, WA & Post Falls, ID Estimated read time: 7 minutes | Category: Property Types For years, most contractors and trade businesses in the Inland Northwest just rented a shop. When the lease ended, they moved on. That pattern is shifting fast. More electricians, HVAC companies, […]

Cost Segregation on Inland Northwest Buildings: Who It Pays For and Who It Doesn’t

Published by Acre Commercial (ACRE)  |  September 2026  |  Spokane, WA Estimated read time: 6 minutes  |  Category: Investment Analysis A buyer closed on a 22,000 square foot flex building in Spokane Valley last spring. Then he asked his CPA a fair question. Could he do anything about this year’s tax bill? The answer turned […]

What a Commercial Sale Really Costs at Closing in Washington Compared to Idaho

Published by Acre Commercial (ACRE)  |  September 2026  |  Spokane, WA Estimated read time: 6 minutes  |  Category: Transaction Advisory Two buildings sit eleven miles apart. Each one is worth $3 million. Both hold 40,000 square feet of clean flex industrial space. One stands on East Sprague in Spokane Valley. The other stands on Seltice […]

What Adaptive Reuse Is Doing to Vacant Office Buildings in Downtown Spokane

Published by Acre Commercial (ACRE)  |  August 2026  |  Spokane, WA Estimated read time: 8 minutes  |  Category: Development & Redevelopment Downtown Spokane holds two markets inside the same few blocks. Metro office vacancy closed Q2 2026 at 7.2%, less than half the national rate. Inside the central business district, vacancy runs near 28%, a […]

Why Medical Office Space Keeps Leasing in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene

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Published by Acre Commercial (ACRE)  |  August 2026  |  Spokane, WA Estimated read time: 7 minutes  |  Category: Healthcare Real Estate Medical office in the Inland Northwest has kept absorbing space, renewing tenants, and drawing buyer competition through every quarter of this cycle. Clinical demand runs on drivers that have very little to do with […]

How Business Owners in Spokane Decide Whether to Buy Their Own Building

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Published by Acre Commercial  |  August 2026  |  Spokane, WA Estimated read time: 7 minutes  |  Category: Owner-User Advisory Every quarter, a handful of Spokane business owners call us with a version of the same question. They have outgrown their space, the landlord has floated a renewal, and someone on the team has raised the […]

Cap Rate Trends Across Seattle, Spokane, and Boise: Where Value Is Shifting in 2026

Published by Acre Commercial (ACRE)  |  July 2026  |  Spokane, WA Estimated read time: 8 minutes  |  Category: Investment Analysis Cap rates tell a story that asking prices don’t. While list prices across the Pacific Northwest have stabilized after two volatile years, the spread between what investors are actually willing to pay for a Seattle […]

Retail Vacancy vs. Rent Growth: Reading the Signals in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene

Published by Acre Commercial (ACRE)  |  July 2026  |  Spokane, WA Estimated read time: 7 minutes  |  Category: Retail Market Report Retail vacancy rates get quoted constantly, but on their own they can mislead as easily as they inform. A market with rising vacancy but strong rent growth is telling a very different story than […]