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News, insights, and success stories from Southeast Michigan's commercial real estate market.

Brokerage July 5, 2013

TEAM Rehab and The Thomas A. Duke Company: A Beautiful Team

Strategic alliances are an integral part of any company’s success. Ford Motor Company’s alliance with Visteon and General Motors’ with Delphi are shining exa…

Brokerage February 25, 2013

Bank’s Foreclosure Met by Significant Demand

Thanks to our history of success with an area bank in selling improved properties returned to it, that bank came to us with a new assignment: sell 106 fully …

Brokerage February 23, 2013

Toppers Pizza Moves into Michigan

Looking for a dynamic market for its first Michigan store, emerging pizza chain Toppers Pizza chose Ann Arbor, and the businessman awarded that franchise cho…

Brokerage February 6, 2013

Urban Danish Design Plus Downtown Birmingham Allure Equals Success!

Since its construction in 1991, 670 S. Old Woodward has been home to Azar’s Oriental Rugs, a highly successful local business.  After 30 years of serving Bir…

Brokerage October 31, 2012

The Phoenix Rises in Pontiac: An Urban Downtown is Re-tenanted

It’s been plain for all to see that commercial landlords in older urban downtowns have taken a beating over the last several years.  A struggling state econo…

Brokerage October 26, 2012

Dearborn Property Fetches close to $100 per square foot—in under 30 days!

Dearborn Property Fetches close to $100 per square foot—in  under 30 days! The Thomas A. Duke Company has again closed on the sale of a Dearborn property at …

Brokerage September 28, 2012

From Reposition to Acquistion: Novi Shopping Center Sells- Above Market Rates

The Village Shopping Center

Brokerage August 7, 2012

Network marketing – 42nd Annual Event of International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)

We at the Thomas A. Duke Company know that network marketing is a key component in our strategy to market properties for sale or lease.  Most recently we par…

Brokerage May 31, 2011

Palmer Crossing deal!

The Thomas A. Duke Company was selected by the US Marshal Service to represent it in the sale of a 25,000 square foot retail center in Canton, Michigan.  The…

Brokerage May 31, 2011

Recent sales in Detroit Market!

Thomas A. Duke Company recently completed two a sale and re-purposing of a vacant 125,000 square foot furniture warehouse for a vocational training facility …

Brokerage May 25, 2011

Article from Crains’s Detroit Business – When the U.S. Marshals say “sell”….

Daniel Duggan May 24, 2011 1:45 PM It was a case of Medicare fraud, seized assets and a man who was sent to jail. But at the end of the case, someone still…

Brokerage March 2, 2011

The Demand For Residential Lots is Picking Up!

High Risk/High Return: That’s been the long-standing equation land developers have lived by. In the boom and bust of the residential land market, the bottom …