Asset Managers Shine in Gloomy Marketplace
John Combs is the happiest person at industry cocktail parties these days, and for good reason. RiverRock Real Estate Group, the asset management services...
Why Contrarian Investors Should Consider Detroit
Although its economy is mired in a deep trough, Southeast Michigan is the best buy-side story in U.S. commercial real estate investing today, if you believe...
Hotel Fundamentals Fall While Opportunities Rise
Morris Lasky doesn't mince words when discussing the fragile state of the U.S. lodging market, which is burdened by a deepening recession and a raft of...
Deleveraging is like a slow, painful death
Phoenix Growing uncertainty and anxiety over the return of capital not the return on capital led to a historic and nightmarish September on Wall Street....
Has the U.S. Labor Market Reached a Tipping Point?
If future historians were to write a book about the state of commercial real estate in this election year of 2008, a fitting title might be, The Great...
Dicey Hotel Market Creates Opportunity for Savvy Investors
With so much bad economic news dampening lodging demand, it's easy to understand why a hotel owner, operator or lender might want to go straight to his...
Times Square Is at the Center of the Green Building Movement
The dramatic transformation of Times Square from a seedy district infamous for porn shops and massage parlors into a thriving retail and entertainment...
Bears Outnumber Bulls at Vegas Retail Convention
Once the darling of the real estate investment community, the shopping center industry is feeling the heat due to a rash of store closures, retail bankruptcies...
Got Free Gas? Hoteliers Respond to Economic Woes with Incentives
With the discretionary dollars of working Americans under attack, the biggest issue facing the hospitality industry in the short term increasingly appears...
Tax Rebates: Psychological Boost or Momentous Force?
Perhaps it is just a drop in the bucket, but the tax rebates that the U.S. Treasury will send out to more than 130 million American families and individuals...
