Company will have 13,000 sf in a 10-year, $4.5M lease
By Dan Weil
June 15, 2015 09:45AM
Rebel Cook, president of Rebel Cook Real Estate in Palm Beach Gardens, also said local officials must do more. “You need a fast-track permitting and development process, probably in all of Palm Beach County. Permitting and zoning takes so long,” she told TRD. So companies that want to relocate in less than a year are choosing locations that allow quicker construction. “Then we lose out,” Cook said.
The industrial real estate market is booming in Palm Beach County, as the strong economy spurs demand while the supply of property grows only slowly.
“There’s a very limited supply of buildings for sale, so prices are going up,” Rebel Cook, president of Rebel Cook Real Estate in Palm Beach Gardens, told The Real Deal. “It’s purely economic: the economic recovery has created demand. Unlike in 2005-06, when a frenzy drove prices up, this is a true economic cycle.”
Monday, Sept. 16, 2013
By Alexandra Clough
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
And the hottest real estate buy these days is….a church? A 22,000 square foot church on five acres in suburban West Palm Beach was put up for sale recently, with a test-the-waters price of $3.5 million. To the surprise of broker Rebel Cook, inquiries were strong “and the phone rang every single day.” “Churches do sell” said Cook, of Rebel Cook Real Estate in Palm Beach Gardens.
The property, owned by the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ of Belle Glade, wa sold to Trinity Church International West for $2.96 million and closed last month.
A reason for the interest: Churches are hard to come by, Cook said. They typically want a visible spot that can be acquired at a reasonable price. But densely populated areas sometimes balk because of the accompanying traffic after services. “It’s not easy to get a church zoned,” Cook Said.
By Bill DiPaolo
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Posted: 9:08 a.m. Saturday, June 9, 2012
“Buyers in places like PGA National and The Shores in Jupiter love that beautiful serenity. They love being around the animals and the birds. It’s a powerful selling point,” said North County Realtor Rebel Cook.
By Bill DiPaolo – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Posted: 12:36 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014
JUPITER —
…But Rebel Cook, a north county commercial property Realtor who is the agent for a 2-acre vacant parcel on Indiantown Road near Town Hall, said Indiantown Road is a future economic engine for Jupiter. “If I had five properties on Indiantown Road, I could sell them right now,” Cook said . The fact that there is little undeveloped land on the town’s main road to and from the beach makes the property valuable, Cook said. As that inventory shrinks, the properties with older buildings will be redeveloped, said Cook, whose office is off Indiantown Road near Wal-Mart. “The traffic is not that bad. The complainers are old-timers who don’t want growth or development. But they have to understand thatdevelopment brings revenue to businesses and tax dollars to local government,” Cook said.
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