The Sundance Company

If you are looking to lease, buy or rent commercial real estate in the greater Boise area then you’ve come to the right place. As one of Boise’s commercial real estate leaders since 1976, The Sundance Company team has helped businesses of all sizes find the right commercial real estate location to fit their business needs.

The Sundance Company knows the Boise commercial real estate market and can share that unmatched market knowledge with you. We are committed to personalized service and devoted to providing innovative, team-based commercial real estate solutions.

Whether you are a start-up business looking for a new commercial real estate location or an existing business needing to expand in Boise metropolitan area, The Sundance Company is here to help your business find and secure the ideal location.

With our start-to-finish capabilities, The Sundance Company can help and make sure your new commercial real estate is a great place to do business and thrive in of the fastest growing markets in the country – the greater Boise metropolitan area.

If you have any questions or comments about The Sundance Company please call 208-322-7300 or visit www.sundanceco.com.

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

 

Here are six tools that can be particularly useful for commercial real estate professionals.

FTL (FindThatLead)

This extension helps your prospecting efforts by pulling emails from LinkedIn profiles (or any social accounts). It allows you to save all your contacts to the dashboard and export them to your CRM so you can reach out for their business.

Boomerang

With this extension, you can schedule emails to go out at a time of your choosing. It lets you take care of correspondence efficiently, scheduling important messages to arrive at the ideal time. Boomerang also provides reminders about important events or deadlines.

Smartr Inbox

This tool provides you with an address book for your Gmail account. It can include detailed information on contacts, and will send updates on your activity on social media, like Facebook or Twitter. The extension provides an extensive history of communication with each of your contacts, so you can make your message relevant and clear.

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For the busy blogger, this extension is a lifesaver. Writing a relevant and useful blog post can be time-consuming, but it’s important to be consistent. Finding additional resources to expand on the topic is a great way to instantly improve a post or build an ongoing series.

Related Content recommends images, links, articles and tags as the user writes, so it’s quick and easy to create links that enrich your content and drive traffic. The user also receives up-to-date analytics for their site.

Ginger Page

Nobody’s perfect, but no matter how busy you are, posting a piece with grammar or spelling errors is unprofessional. Mistakes will only distract the reader from your intended message and make you look sloppy. Using this extension eliminates those errors by alerting you with pop-ups. It’s like having your 10th grade English teacher at your elbow.

1Password

Sick of wasting time recovering passwords you can’t remember? It’s unwise to rely on one or two passwords for all sites, but using a variety can make it hard to keep track—especially for sites you only use on occasion. Every site has a different procedure: verification code, temporary password, security questions that you don’t remember setting up. 1Password takes it all away, and it also works for credit card numbers and registration form info.

The story originally appeared on the apto blog.

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

 

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

If you are looking to lease, buy or rent commercial real estate in Meridian, Idaho then you’ve come to the right place. As one of Meridian’s commercial real estate leaders, The Sundance Company team has helped businesses of all sizes find the right commercial real estate location to fit their business needs.

The Sundance Company knows and understands the Meridian commercial real estate market and can share their market knowledge with you. The Sundance Company is committed to personalized service and devoted to providing innovative, team-based commercial real estate solutions.

Whether you are a start-up business looking for a new commercial real estate location or an existing business needing to expand, The Sundance Company is here to help find and secure the perfect location for your company.

With their start-to-finish capabilities, The Sundance Company can help and make sure your new commercial real estate is a great place to do business and thrive in of the fastest growing markets in the state of Idaho – Meridian.

If you have any questions or comments about The Sundance Company please call 208-322-7300 or visit www.sundanceco.com.

 

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

 

“My coworkers are used to Excel and Outlook. They have their way of doing things and they don’t have time to learn a new tool. What can I do about it?”


We hear it all the time. Coworkers may be particularly resistant to change sometimes, but change management in general is something all businesses (and managers) face. New technology often promises to make your lives better or easier, but you have to get everyone on board for it to work.

Here are some ways to make new technology adoption successful.

1. Put the right communication and training in place from the beginning.

When announcing the change and communicating along the way, don’t overwhelm your coworkers with information. Talk about and train coworkers on changes to their day-to-day process. By focusing on real-world examples, you can overcome the “fear of the new” as users realize the benefits of the new technology.

Also be clear about what’s changing and what’s in it for them. Will it give them the opportunity to make more money? Will it increase productivity in a way that reduces weekend work?

2. Remember that it’s a political campaign. Get the influential users on-board and neutralize negative parties.

You probably already know the people who are going to be excited about this, as well as those who will resist the change. Make sure to sit down with both factions beforehand. Get the champions involved so they can coach others on how to use the technology to their benefit. Don’t just pick the most tech-savvy individuals; choose people who work horizontally across the organization and are well respected within the team. It can be more meaningful and valuable to get some coworkers who aren’t typically among the earliest tech adopters to help champion a new platform or tool.

Continue to manage emotions through the process. Focus on the positive, and stay positive yourself. Your coworkers look to leadership, so make sure to lead by example.



3. Make it fun.

Throughout the year, coworkers come together to create winning March Madness brackets, fantasy football teams and pots of chili—competing passionately for bragging rights or another prize. Create a similar competition to build excitement and encourage coworkers to use your new CRM or other new tool. To reduce the technology gap between individuals, set up teams so the more tech-savvy coworkers can coach the less tech-inclined. For example, give a company-paid dinner to the first team to have each broker log 50 calls inside of the CRM. Or give a gift card to the first broker to successfully convert five new proposals to a listing.



4. Share success stories.

Once employees begin to use the technology more and more, draw attention to the positive impact it’s having on individual and organizational results. Publicizing quick wins helps build a case for change and encourages further adoption. It’s as easy as sending an email or giving a shout-out at your weekly team meeting.


5. Have a post-implementation plan.

Training and adoption do not end when the new system goes live. In fact, post-implementation support is an important area for ensuring ongoing user adoption. Make sure to take advantage of any webinars or training your technology vendor offers, and follow-up with your coworkers frequently.



6. Set your expectations for technology adoption.

If the tool produces reports and analytics, make sure to use them during check-ins with your team. Use it to review pipeline, performance or other metrics you care about. If you use it yourself—and expect them to as well—make sure it becomes part of your process and interactions.

The story originally appeared on the apto blog.

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

 

The Sundance Company, a commercial real estate leader with more than 1.5 million square feet of office, retail, and industrial space available in prime locations throughout the Boise Valley, is pleased to showcase the Blackeagle Center.

Blackeagle Center is a 45-acre, master-planned business park developed by The Sundance Company in Boise, Idaho. The complex is home to coffee and sandwich shops, athletic centers, as well as various medical providers. There are six access points to the center off of Overland Road and Maple Grove Road.

Other highlights of Blackeagle Center include:

• Blackeagle Center is located 1/3 mile from the Interstate, minutes from the Boise airport and downtown Boise.
• The business park is within 2 miles of more than 3 million square feet of retail amenities for employee convenience including Costco, Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Albertsons, Fred Meyer, Walgreens, Cabela’s, Starbucks, the Boise Spectrum Theatre Complex, and the Boise Towne Square Mall.
• In addition to numerous retail establishments, there are a large variety of banking, day care centers, restaurants, fitness centers, and a library in the surrounding area. More demographic details are available at The Sundance Company website.

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs in Boise, Meridian, Nampa, and the greater Treasure Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime Boise and Meridia

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

 

People around the world are living longer than ever before. And these people are going to need steady streams of income to sustain them through retirement.

When it comes to commercial real estate investments, meeting the needs of aging baby boomers opens up new demands and opportunities.

Retirement-minded portfolios

Real estate investments will help baby boomers through retirement, says David Green-Morgan, JLL’s Global Capital Markets Research Director. They provide “exactly the type of investment that pension schemes are looking for: lower risk more predictable income streams that allow them to match their outflow liabilities.”

And institutional investors are catching on—JLL predicts global real estate transaction volumes will blow past the $1 trillion mark by 2020, largely due to the extra cash these investors are allocating to the sector. While institutional investors only account for around 20% of the market currently, experts expect them to become bigger and bigger players over time.

It’s a global market

As more investors add real estate to their portfolios in order to find secure income streams — which are lower risk and inflation protected — supply will become limited. Asian buyers are already a major source driving climbing real estate values in the US and Europe, as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and insurance companies from the region continue to store capital in real estate. And real estate investment is only going to get more global—by 2020 more than 50% of all real estate investment is expected to originate from cross-border activity. That’s about $500 billion a year.

But as there aren’t enough investment grade properties hitting the market to keep pace with demand, investors are going to need to cast a wider net. “We anticipate that in the absence of significant new stock becoming available, capital will target many different avenues to achieve its desired direct real estate exposure, including joint ventures, partnerships, M&A and other alternative sectors such as healthcare, retirement living and, increasingly, residential,” Green-Morgan explains.

Asian funds focus on real estate investments

It’s hardly surprising that people are living longer than before, but the combination of a shrinking workforce as aging baby boomers retire while more people draw on public pensions presents a problem. European pension funds are already struggling under this weight and have greater outflows than inflows on a net basis.

But the region most in need of an investment solution is Asia. Asia is home to five of the top ten fastest-aging countries in the next five years, and Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea will be affected more than most.

“As the working age population shrinks in the coming years, global savings investment will surge,” Green-Morgan says. “This is particularly noticeable in China where the drop off in the size of the workforce mirrors that of Western Europe, the U.S., Canada, Japan and Australia.”

With this in mind, Asian insurance and pension funds are planning to invest $300 billion into global real estate by 2020 to help ensure they can take care of their elderly. And it’s a good thing they are—most pension funds in Asian countries are below the global average as a percentage of GDP, according to Green-Morgan, who says, “Looking ahead, we will see increased allocations by the region’s pension funds into real estate as a result of the ageing population, pension reforms and capital market developments.”

While it’s just one of many considerations stemming from the global imminent demographic shift—it’s a critical one to get right. More people are going to enter retirement in the next few years than ever before, and real estate investment will be a critical part of the formula for institutional investors.

The story originally appeared on the Hightower blog.

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

 

 

About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.

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About The Sundance Company
Established in 1976, The Sundance Company has the experience to help you with your commercial real estate needs throughout the Boise Valley. If your requirements include property management, leasing, real estate development, project planning, construction or space planning then look to us. The Sundance Company has more than 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial space available in prime locations in the Boise metropolitan area. More information is available at www.sundanceco.com or 208.322.7300.