Flood Damage Haunts Reporter
Six months after Hurricane Katrina's storm surge caused the levees separating Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans to breach and flood 80% of the city,...
Two Exclusive Studies Yield Intriguing Results
Readers who enjoy poring over research have hit the jackpot. This issue features two exclusive studies: our second-annual borrower trends survey conducted...
Is any property sector truly recession-proof?
The only guarantees in a real estate editor's world are death, taxes, and constant change in the property markets from which no commercial real estate...
Technology Gains Bittersweet for Evolving Real Estate Industry
If we were to add a sixth trend to our cover story this month, Forecast 2006, undoubtedly it would spotlight technological change and its impact on the...
Downsizing Grocery Stores: A recipe for success?
Our November cover story, Appetite for Risk, tries to answer this fundamental question: How can traditional supermarket chains survive the onslaught of...
Crude Awakening: How rising oil prices affect real estate
Soaring prices at the gasoline pump have me in a perpetual state of sticker shock. As recently as 1998, I was paying 68 cents for a gallon of unleaded...
Office Absorption Rises, But Concerns Persist
With so much hoopla over the hot investment sales market and the lofty prices office buildings are commanding, it's easy to overlook trends in the underlying...
Global Bond Markets Change Rules of the Game
David Wyss, chief economist with Standard & Poor's, last month delivered a speech in New York during which he outlined his forecast for the U.S. economy...
Cap-rate compression puts the squeeze on investors
Deal heat is an expression that Jack Welch, the outspoken and colorful former CEO of General Electric, likes to use to describe a bidding war for a company...
REIT option for federal workers on the menu?
An important legislative issue for the commercial real estate industry, one that could affect literally millions of small real estate investors, was the...
