All-Cash TIC Advantage
Access to affordable capital has rapidly become a difference maker in the tenant-in-common industry. TIC sponsors able to utilize an all-cash development,...
Litigation The New Real Estate Reality
In the liquidity and deleveraging crisis we are facing today, economic distress will inexorably lead to more disputes, often resulting in litigation....
Are Real Estate Jobs Headed for the Beach?
Last fall Dan Gaylord moved his family 1,500 miles across the country from Southern California to Austin, Texas, for a change of lifestyle, and then secured...
Tainted Real Estate Transactions on the Rise
Picture this scenario: Despite the difficulties of the current market, an owner or investor manages to close a deal and is ready to reinvest the proceeds,...
Trouble Lurks Under the Surface
The waters of the commercial property markets appear calm, but is more trouble lurking beneath the surface? Whether you are a lender or a borrower, the...
Don't Delay CMBS Write-downs
Over the coming months, holders of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) may be faced with write-downs as the values of commercial property decline...
IRR Miscalculations Waste Time and Money
Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a valuable tool used across the real estate industry. By boiling down profitability to a single interest-rate equivalent,...
Smart Investors Sniff Out Apartment Deals
Players in the real estate industry are operating in a challenging new environment. This includes those of us in the multifamily sector, which has had...
A Structured Finance Hangover
At the height of the commercial real estate market's historic up cycle in 1999, collateralized debt obligations emerged on the scene. In fact, during...
Golden Era Vanishes
My reading on the plane trip to Cannes was The Exchange Artist: America's First Banking Collapse, a book by Jane Kamensky. A web of increasingly remote,...
