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Part 3: Market Indicators vs. Selling Price Commercial real estate owners and lenders are facing losses due to excess supply, high unemployment and declining market values. Defaults have soared, vacancy rates are approaching 20% and values could drop 50%+ from their height in 2007.   One of the problems is that lenders were so lax in […]

Part 2 – Market Price vs. Market Value: As previously mentioned, Baseline is the value at any given point in time [over a 30-year life cycle], factoring in nominal depreciation and major maintenance events specific to that make/model.  At the end of the 30-year cycle (+/-), value will be ascertained by ‘the sum of the […]

With an abundance of rhetoric in the current market and questions lingering over when conditions will improve, here are a couple of interesting facts with regard to medium and long-range business jets when comparing current conditions with the height of the market in ’07. On average: Selling prices are down 30%  The number of aircraft […]

My name is Dennis Rousseau, President and Founder of AircraftPost, an information service provider to owners / operators of Bombardier, Falcon, Gulfstream and Hawker aircraft. AircraftPost is a single source web-based portal that provides immediate access to the information you need to make informed decisions. We deliver ‘real time’ intelligence for value assessment, internal reporting, buy / […]

AircraftPost is an information portal for owners of medium and long-range business jets, providing intelligence for strategic planning and managing costs of ownership. From the time an aircraft is placed in service, it requires ongoing inspections, upgrades, modifications, and refurbishment which can easily run into the millions of dollars. Our focus is tracking the value of the aircraft in ‘real […]

So, where do we go from here… you’ve heard a lot of bad news.  What about the GOOD NEWS / NOT SO GOOD NEWS: European stocks have gained for the past 2 months on the expectation that government efforts to revive the economy will work.  However, Germany is experiencing its worst recession in 60 years.  […]

On June 1, 2009, Dennis Rousseau gave a presentation on the Pre-Owned Market Perspective at the Aviation Professionals Conference.  We continue with the second of three in a series of posts. Pre-Owned Market Perspective: Part II In Part I of our perspective on the pre-owned market, we focused on the Dot-com bubble and the correlation […]

On June 1, 2009, Dennis Rousseau gave a presentation on the Pre-Owned Market Perspective at the Aviation Professionals Conference. The talk was well received and we have decided to post the contents. We will break up the presentation into a series of posts. Pre-Owned Market Perspective: Part I Business aviation has historically been a cyclical […]