A visitor driving into downtown Chicago these days could be forgiven for thinking that the city’s official bird has become the building crane. A seemingly endless number of new buildings are reaching for the sky in...
Commercial real estate circles — particularly those with stakes in multifamily markets — have been abuzz since Sunday, when U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that the government was taking over...
As the fourth largest institutional real estate manager in the United States, Des Moines-based Principal Real Estate Investors manages more than $40 billion in commercial real estate assets...
Pension systems in the U.S. face a host of issues when investing their billions of dollars in overseas real estate, and one key is understanding the difference between “emerging” and “frontier” markets. One leading...
When Scott Peters announced his resignation as CEO at Grubb & Ellis Co. in July, the sudden departure was the latest chapter in a long saga of management changes for the once-powerful brokerage. Since 2001, three...
When the nation's largest pension fund has emerging markets on its radar screen, the investment world takes notice. During a daylong meeting in August, members of the investment committee for the California Public...
Get used to saying “EMEA” and “Asia Pacific” a whole lot. After all, Europe, the Middle East and Africa — a.k.a. EMEA — and the Far East are the new frontiers when it comes to growing revenue streams for the world’s...
