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Welcome to the Cornerstone Index. Our goal is to provide access to relevant news articles that impact commercial real estate in Middle and East Tennessee. In addition, we will provide synopsis of the past week, an occasional opinion as well as commentary on more macro issues.

However, to begin with, who are we and how are we qualified to be a blogger? Obviously there are no qualifications to be a blogger but I promise to deliver real news that assists the reader and will refrain from personal/corporate adolations. We are Cushman Wakefield | Cornerstone, a full service commercial real estate company that has offices in Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga, TN. We offer all of the customary commercial real estate services such as office, retail and industrial leasing, brokerage and property management. We have a dedicated team of Investment Sales professionals that work diligently with our sister company, Q10 Vista Commercial Mortgage. Q10 Vista is a commercial mortgage banker with life insurance and Wall Street lending relationships.

Enough on us, but I did need to qualify ourselves!

On the week ending March 8, 2012, Nashville saw the sale of Synergy Business Park to Boyle Investments. Jeff Haynes and his team will do a terrific job of revitalizing this important business park of Brentwood. Knoxville saw continuing momentum in its downtown core and Chattanooga announced another hotel near Hamilton Place Mall. On the mortgage front, Q10 Vista experienced continued tightening of interest rate spreads with conservative loans pricing in the low 4% range for 10 year fixed deals.