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...
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...
