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Smart Investors Sniff Out Apartment Deals
Jun 1, 2008
Players in the real estate industry are operating in a challenging new environment. This includes those of us in the multifamily sector, which has had...
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A Structured Finance Hangover
May 1, 2008
At the height of the commercial real estate market's historic up cycle in 1999, collateralized debt obligations emerged on the scene. In fact, during...
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Golden Era Vanishes
Apr 1, 2008
My reading on the plane trip to Cannes was The Exchange Artist: America's First Banking Collapse, a book by Jane Kamensky. A web of increasingly remote,...
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It Smells Like Distress
Feb 1, 2008
People always underestimate how bad things can get. While we all know that trees don't grow to the sky, during a boom market the human spirit cannot believe...
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Making A Business Case for Green Building
Dec 1, 2007
In Georgia, we call a politician with a particularly sugary tongue someone who can talk the birds from the trees. No doubt, little green birds were dropping...
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Credit Bears Romp
Nov 1, 2007
It sure is tough to be a bull these days. One ominous signal: On Oct. 19, exactly 20 years after the Black Monday stock market crash, the Dow Jones Industrial...
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As Good As It Gets?
Jul 1, 2007
If the real estate mortgage market were a chair, it would be supported by four legs: commercial real estate, single family, condo conversion, and land loans. Given the current state of the overall mortgage markets, that chair is barely standing. Three of its four legs have either fallen off or are wobbling, and only one leg remains stable — commercial real estate mortgage loans....
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Global Investors Parlay Knowledge into Deals
Apr 1, 2007
For the 18th year in a row, veterans and virgins alike converged on Cannes March 13-16 for MIPIM The World's Property Market the largest international commercial real estate conference in the world. MIPIM is deafening, crowded and highly productive for deal makers....
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Is the Public REIT Market Losing Its Luster?
Mar 1, 2007
Change appears to be threatening the public real estate investment trust (REIT) market. Just five years ago, the total value of public REIT mergers and acquisitions was only $10 billion with less than $2 billion coming from private equity firms....
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Construction Prices Headed Up in 2007
Feb 1, 2007
Commercial construction costs will increase on average by 6% to 8% in 2007 two to four times faster than inflation despite a slowing economy, according to Kenneth Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)...
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Empowering Women
Dec 1, 2006
This year Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize for lifting millions of poor people primarily women out of poverty. ...
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Outsourcing to Win
Nov 1, 2006
Outsourcing is increasingly touted by Corporate America as the golden ticket to increased profitability. ...
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Bankers as Brokers?
Oct 1, 2006
Two efforts by banks to create a bigger footprint in real estate have met strong resistance, but the fight is far from over. If banks are successful, they'll be competing with brokerage, management, and development firms....
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Private Capital, the Great Equalizer
Sep 1, 2006
Many seasoned players who share a track record for creating value find themselves in need of a capital infusion to grow their businesses...
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Saving on Title Insurance
Aug 1, 2006
commercial real estate developers, investors, and lenders are increasingly forming partially or wholly owned title insurance agencies to service their own real estate acquisition, disposition, and refinancing activity....
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Property Insurers Put to the Test
Jul 1, 2006
The hurricanes of the 2004 and 2005 seasons inflicted massive damage on real estate along the Gulf Coast. There are still hundreds of pending commercial...
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The X-Factor in Hiring
Jun 1, 2006
In the May issue of NREI, we profiled a handful of this spring's crop of newly minted commercial real estate MBA grads. The upshot? In this increasingly...
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Holdover Tenants Dealt a Legal Blow
May 1, 2006
In a landmark case, a New York State trial judge recently ruled that a tenant who remained in commercial space after its lease expired is liable not only...
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Making A Strong Case For In-House Research
Mar 1, 2006
As empirical data in the property markets takes on heightened importance, research increasingly becomes a point of differentiation among commercial real...
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Drama Over Due Diligence
Feb 1, 2006
In June 2001, a major institutional investor purchased a full-service medical plaza in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to purchase, the investor retained...
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