Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.

And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli's.

Hello, my friends, and welcome to another episode

of Ask Marco, where I answer your investing related questions.

Today's question comes from Samantha,

and she says, hi, Marco.

I am currently trying to study up on the real estate in San Antonio.

And while your article helped me a lot

with the residential areas areas I was just curious

about how the market looks with non-residential or is it the same? Great

question Samantha so there are a lot of similarities and overlap between residential and non-residential or what we would call commercial real estate

But there are some differences and so I will give you a quick overview here of what those differences are.

So there are plenty of forces that dictate the real estate market, some of them being political, some of them being economic,

some of them being psychographic.

These are all influencers, but those are the major ones. So these influences are better measured by what

we'll call market drivers and they are the underlying force behind the actions of

a real estate market. So when it comes to commercial real estate, there are three key drivers.

The first one being yield, the second one being business confidence,

and the third one being the occupancy rates or what some people might look at as being vacancy rates.

But let's begin with kind of a basic and define what a market driver is.

Simply put, a driver is the principal force that is positively influencing a market.

So when a market driver is present, there is likely to be a positive market or industry

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