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Waiting for the Ship to Reverse Course
What level of employment growth will it take for commercial real estate fundamentals to improve significantly? We recently put that question to our readers....
Is Government Helping Or Hurting Borrowers?
In the wake of extraordinary steps taken by the federal government to pick the U.S. economy off the mat including the $700 billion TARP program to bail...
Metro Atlantans, Georgia feel sting of recession
A notorious boom and bust market, metro Atlanta is taking its lumps these days. Emerging Trends in Real Estate, an annual forecast produced jointly by...
This Miserable Run Can Still Be Undone
Seasoned commercial real estate professionals can relate to Jonathan Bartlett when he offers this observation: I'm beginning to think that at these conferences...
Trading Ideas On How to Revive Job Market
While some leading economic indicators show that the Great Recession is over, the statistical evidence provides little solace for millions of Americans...
Coming to Grips With Those Toxic Assets
Are banks and other financial institutions playing a game of hide the pea with their troubled commercial real estate properties? Douglas Wilson, a self-described...
It's Getting Late Early for Recovery in 2009
While commercial real estate professionals can take some solace in the fact that the overall rate of decline in the employment market is slowing, there is no way to sugarcoat the damaging effect these huge job losses are having on household wealth and consumer demand for apartments, retail and hotels...
CMBS Lending Maze Confounds Borrowers
Once the darling of Wall Street, CMBS has become a four-letter word for an increasing number of borrowers...
Looking for Signs of Spring In Our Winter of Discontent
March came in like a lion, meteorologically speaking, with heavy snow and cold in the East. Too bad the same couldn't be said of the feeble U.S. economy,...
Health Care Shows Strong Vital Signs In Sick Economy
The health care industry is hardly recession-proof, but it's among only a few employment sectors to escape serious financial injury at a time when demand...
