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CMBS Market Throttles Down
Jan 01, 2008
Prepare for a much leaner and meaner commercial mortgage-backed securities market in 2008. Domestic CMBS issuance this year is expected to drop by more than 50% to $108 billion, down from a record $223.8 billion in...
A Retail Reinvention of Manhattan's Financial District
Jan 01, 2008
For decades, Manhattan's Financial District held zero cachet as a shopping destination. Its crooked street grid, which bears little in common with the uniform retail corridors of Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, didn...
Office Rally Running Out of Gas
Dec 01, 2007
Office landlords have enjoyed falling vacancies and rising rents during the past three years. But the sector's underlying property fundamentals are likely to weaken due to a softening U.S. economy and a wave of new...
Demand For Hotel Mega-Deals Poised To Soften
Nov 27, 2007
Hotel investors will spend upwards of $45.3 billion this year, projects Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, which would make 2007 the fourth straight year of record sales volume...
Moody's reports decline in U.S. property values
Nov 20, 2007
The impressive run-up in commercial real estate values may have finally run its course. This week, Moody’s Investors Service reports that U.S. commercial property values posted a 1.2% decline in September...
Sustainable Design Heats Up
Nov 13, 2007
Spiraling energy costs are a major factor driving demand to build and occupy sustainable green buildings, based on a recent survey of architects...
Deal Adds Life To Moribund M & A Market
Nov 07, 2007
Mortgage REIT Gramercy Capital Corp. (NYSE: GKK) plans to acquire bank building owner American Financial Realty Trust (NYSE: AFR) for roughly $1.1 billion. The deal, which Gramercy announced on Monday, will...
A Subprime Sucker Punch
Nov 01, 2007
Shares in multifamily real estate investment trusts (REITs) have taken a beating of late. Through Oct. 23, apartment REIT shares plunged by 11.9% due in large part to the subprime lending meltdown in the residential...
Changing Market Scuttles Office Sales
Nov 01, 2007
Investors plunked down a record $17 billion to acquire Manhattan office properties in the first quarter. But as the credit downturn whipsawed demand for Manhattan skyscrapers, quarterly volume began to decline. Office...
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