TBT: Ask Marco - Residential vs Non-Residential Market Drivers

Passive Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing with Marco Santarelli, Investor and Entrepreneur.

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Click Here for the Show Notes In this episode, Marco breaks down a great question from Samantha about the non-residential (aka commercial) real estate market. While the residential side gets a lot of attention, commercial real estate plays by different rules — and it's all about yield, business confidence, and occupancy rates. Want to know how to spot a smart investment? Or what signs point to a strong (or weak) market? Marco lays it all out — plus how residential and commercial overlap and where they differ most. 👉 Whether you're an investor, a curious homebuyer, or just diving into real estate trends, this episode will give you a clearer understanding of how the market really works. 📩 Don’t miss out – hit subscribe and share with a friend. -------------------------------- Throwback Thursday Episode (The episode originally took place in the year 2020) This episode is part of our Throwback Series and may include references to older content such as web classes, events, promotions, or links that are no longer active or available. While the conversation and insights still hold value, please note that some information may be outdated. -------------------------------- If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to TBT: Ask Marco - Buying Turnkey Properties With a 15-Year Mortgage? Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. Our team of Investment Counselors has much more inventory available than what you see on our website. Contact us today for more deals.

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0:00.0	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.
0:12.9	Hello, my friends. Welcome back to passive real estate investing, where we dive into the world of real estate investing, among other related topics, to help you with your real estate investing journey.
0:23.4	Today, we're doing something a little different. We're going to take a trip down memory lane and showcase an important episode from the past on what we call our throwback Thursday episode.
0:34.5	Now, whether you've been with us since the beginning, which goes back to 2015,
0:38.7	or you're tuning in for the first time, this episode is a must listen. We are revisiting one of
0:45.2	our more popular episodes from the past. And believe me, what we discussed back then,
0:50.4	whether it's six months ago or six years ago, is just as relevant today. So sit back, relax,
0:57.1	and let's rewind the clock for this great episode. Enjoy. Today's question comes from Samantha,
1:03.6	and she says, hi, Marco. I am currently trying to study up on the real estate in San Antonio.
1:08.8	And while your article helped me a lot with the residential
1:11.5	areas, I was just curious about how the market looks with non-residential, or is it the same?
1:17.6	Great question, Samantha. So there are a lot of similarities and overlap between residential and
1:24.1	non-residential or what we would call commercial real estate. But there are some
1:28.9	differences, and so I will give you a quick overview here of what those differences are. So there
1:36.6	are plenty of forces that dictate the real estate market, some of them being political,
1:42.8	some of them being economic, some of them being economic, some of them being
1:45.9	psychographic. These are all influencers, but those are the major ones. So these influences are
1:53.4	better measured by what we'll call market drivers, and they are the underlying force behind
1:58.9	the actions of a real estate market.
2:01.5	So when it comes to commercial real estate, there are three key drivers.
2:05.7	The first one being yield, the second one being business confidence,
2:10.9	and the third one being the occupancy rates,
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