Commercial Property Insurance

Commercial Property Insurance to Cover Your Business

Your business’s future depends on its security today. Waiting until it is too late is not the responsible business decision.

Commercial Property Insurance can help cover your:

  • Your business location (structure)
  • Product Inventory
  • Files
  • Technology equipment
  • Exterior signage
  • Landscaping and fencing
  • Additional structures

 

Types of Commercial Property

Commercial real estate is commonly divided into six categories:

  1. Office Buildings – This category includes single‐tenant properties, small professional office buildings, downtown skyscrapers,
    and everything in between.
  2. Industrial – This category ranges from smaller properties, often called “Flex” or “R&D” properties, to larger office service or office warehouse properties to the very large “big box” industrial properties. An important, defining characteristic of industrial space is Clear Height. Clear height is the actual height, to the bottom of the steel girders in the interior of the building. This might be 14‐16 feet for smaller properties, and 40+ feet for larger properties. We also consider the type and number of docks that the property has. These can be Grade Level, where the parking lot and the warehouse floor are on the same level, to semi‐dock height at 24 inches, which is the height of a pickup truck or delivery truck, or a full‐dock at 48 inches which is semi‐truck height. Some buildings may even have a Rail Spur for train cars to load and unload.commercial property
  3. Retail/Restaurant – This category includes pad sites on highway frontages, single tenant retail buildings, small neighborhood shopping centers, larger centers with grocery store anchor tenants, “power centers” with large anchor stores such as Best Buy, PetSmart, OfficeMax, and so on even regional and outlet malls.
  4. Multifamily – This category includes apartment complexes or high‐rise apartment buildings. Generally, anything larger than a fourplex is considered commercial real estate.
  5. Land – This category includes investment properties on undeveloped, raw, rural land in the path of future development. Or, infill land with an urban area, pad sites, and more.
  6. Miscellaneous – This catch all category would include any other nonresidential properties such as hotel, hospitality, medical, and self‐storage developments, as well as many more.

We welcome the opportunity to help you assess the key elements of your business that need protection and provide you with an affordable North Carolina Commercial Property Insurance quote specific to your business.  The U.S. property market landscape in 2016 will appear much like it did in 2015, with a number of interwoven aspects that bode well for savvy investors who can step out in front of ongoing—and, in some cases, intensifying—economic, demographic, and technological trends.  Read the full article here.