America's economic crisis could insulate commercial real estate from at least one proposed legislative change that became a hot-button issue during the U.S. presidential campaign — an increase in the capital gains...
In the wake of Lehman Brothers' collapse and the financial turmoil that roiled Wall Street in late September and early October, a federal accounting rule, FAS 157, which addresses how to value corporate assets when...
Will the proposed Employee Free Choice Act destroy the hotel industry's profitability by driving up workers' wages, as some owners argue? Or will it level the playing field between labor and management, as unions...
Though President George Bush has opposed the U.S. Senate's bipartisan “cap and trade” climate control legislation and Senate Republicans blocked the bill in June, legislation to reduce U.S. carbon emissions isn't dead...
Less than two months after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pulled the plug on exclusive contracts between property owners or developers and cable companies, the picture of how the rule affects owners and...
The drumbeat for reform in the residential mortgage market due to lax underwriting standards has been growing in recent months, but there has been virtually no push for regulation of commercial mortgage lenders. Why...
If you're alarmed by newspaper headlines announcing that the Internal Revenue Service plans to tighten the rules on 1031 tax-deferred exchanges and audit more taxpayers, take a deep breath. That may happen, but it's...
The U.S. House and Senate spent the last month of 2007 trying to show each other who's the boss of terrorism risk insurance legislation. The Senate won with the passage of its version of legislation re-extending the...