
Best Practices for Commercial Real Estate: Buying or Selling
Commercial Real Estate (CRE) transactions are competitive, rapidly evolving and rich with potential. This demands legal counsel that can drive the deal. The CRE attorney team at Smith Slusky Law provide legal services combining experience, industry knowledge and personalized advice that covers a broad spectrum of industries and property types. No matter what side of the closing table you sit on, or the scope of your transaction, we support your best interests to close the dea

Mark Your Calendar April 5 for CRE Summit
Mark your calendar for April 5 for the premier event for commercial real estate in the Omaha, Council Bluffs and Lincoln areas. Reports from the committee is this year they anticipate being sold out at the Convention Center Omaha. Sign up will be begin soon at the CRE Summit website. Congratulations to Jerry Slusky, Dan Smith, and Tom McLeay for all their efforts on the CRE Summit Board. #CommercialRealEstate #jerryslusky #omahaattorney

In The News: CREW Omaha's 10th birthday party showcased Jerry Slusky, Baird Holm, and Lockwood D
(Morning Sky Omaha, January 22, 2019) Hundreds of local commercial real estate professionals came together at Hilton Omaha in downtown Omaha Saturday evening to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CREW Omaha Metro. As promised, the group hosted a party to celebrate women in CRE as well as the men and companies who encourage them. CREW board members honored past CREW presidents and long-time supporters like Jerry Slusky. After receiving CREW's first ever "I'm With Her" Award

How Jerry Slusky created the CRE Summit and bailed out sick commercial real estate in Omaha and beyo
Twenty nine years after its inception, the CRE Summit has become the premier industry event of its kind, bringing together the city’s most influential leaders to discuss impactful topics and bring together industry participants from across the region. The year is 1990, and Jerry Slusky is teaching a real estate development course to two dozen law students. The real estate attorney and professor is only a month deep into teaching these courses when the economy -- and particula

What tech are we watching?
National Association of Realtors® makes strategic investment in Notarize to help scale online notarizations across the country Smith Slusky has been following technologies for the change from wet signatures and hand notarizing documents to going fully digital. Notarize being funded by the National Association of Realtors is a step forward on getting an app on track for real estate. While we don't endorse a particular solution yet, we are closely tracking for best practice. #C

CRE Academy
In order to perpetuate the success of our Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Community, it is important to pass on our experience. It is imperative that we identify college students and young professionals that have an interest in pursuing a career in any aspect of CRE and groom them for careers in our industry. There are a number of baby boomers who are phasing out of their work lives and millennials will need to be prepared to make major contributions to our industry. Throughout,

2017 CRE Summit Agenda Announced
The CRE Summit planning committee has announced the 2017 program title "A Changing Playbook" to push the topics of commercial real estate in Omaha, Lincoln and the region at the largest regional gathering of commercial real estate professionals. The Summit agenda highlights include: Continuing educational credit programming for lawyers, commercial real estate, appraisers and more. Induction of Deal of the Year, and Hall of Fame 2017 including H. Dan Smith. A mayoral debate wi

Is Amazon Taking Over the Industrial Sector of Commercial Real Estate?
An interesting topic of conversation around the commercial real estate community in Omaha and the region. This article by Duke Long sparked interest around our law office. Biggest Threat to Your Industrial Space? Your Customer! What? What threat? There is no threat to your industrial space, or so you think. If there was and there is not, then how could it possibly be your customer? It’s pretty easy to see if you just step back and take a look at one of the biggest industrial

2017 Midwest Multifamily Outlook
Working in the multifamily arena as a commercial real attorney means watching national trends in financial movements, occupancy predictions and amenity trends, and apply for our clients. Financial Movements Change is ahead in 2017. Three areas covered by Multihousing News are the areas to watch as the new administration takes over. Availability of funds for new and refinance will change. Probably tighten. Interest rates will rise. Regulations will loosen if campaign promises

CRE Summit
Omaha's premier CRE Summit will be held Friday, March 24 in an all day event at Omaha's CenturyLink Center. Smith Slusky's own Jerry Slusky has been the driving force behind the CRE Summit for over 25 years. He has promoted the CRE Summit from a small, Creighton University classroom event to almost 700 attendees in 2016. The 2017 program is underway with the assistance of a 30 member board including Jerry Slusky, Dan Smith and Tom McLeay. Early event registration is on now th