Wall Street Takes its Lumps at Lodging Conference
Joel Ross is uniquely qualified to opine on the sharp rise in delinquent hotel loans held in commercial mortgage-backed securities. After all, in 1993...
Muskegon, Mich. Makes an Offer That's Hard to Refuse: Free Land
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures in Muskegon County, Mich., where the unemployment rate rose from 13.9% in June to 14.9% in July. In a bold move to stimulate hiring, the city of Muskegon, the county and Dalton Township have joined forces to offer free land to companies that can guarantee 25 or more full-time jobs at one of two industrial parks. ...
Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full for Hoteliers?
Bill Hoffman insists that he is not a prophet of doom, but some hotel industry executives might beg to differ. The founder and CEO of Trigild, a San Diego-based...
Sam Zell Pulls No Punches with ULI Crowd
Love him or hate him, the irrepressible Sam Zell makes for great theater, particularly when he's talking shop with real estate professor Peter Linneman...
How Political Rhetoric Stung U.S. Travel Industry
To say that the hotel industry, which is notorious for boom and bust cycles, has hit another rough patch is a gross understatement. Just ask Roger Dow,...
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...
