After all the news surrounding Borders' efforts to secure financing recently, I spent the past week scanning through the news reports every morning all but certain there would be an announcement of a bankruptcy filing. So far, that hasn't happened...

We reported in our January/February issue how the increasing competition for CMBS deals among Wall Street firms was leading to a loosening of underwriting standards. ...

This weekend went down fairly quietly, without too much news emerging about retail real estate. The news reports that did emerge, however, were disheartening. The Wall Street Journal reported that banks still haven't worked through the piles of...

Atlas Park--a troubled lifestyle center in Queens--was snapped up for $53.7 million in a foreclosure auction. The winning entity was WMAP LLC and it has now been revealed that the entity includes regional mall REIT Macerich as well as Walton...