NREI Investor Trends
Finance: Investors
Opportunity Funds Overfloweth
Real estate opportunity funds are now raising tens of billions of dollars to pounce on properties and mortgages as values head back...
Catch-22 in Mezzanine Lending
Mezzanine lenders are tripping over each other in their haste to accommodate hungry borrowers....
Names In The News
Stephen Cassidy has been promoted to president of Denholtz Associates, a privately held development, investment and management company. He will be responsible...
Do I Hear A Bid?
The distressed residential real estate market early this year generated plenty of headlines about sprawling Long Island mansions, surplus Miami condos...
Names In The News
Keith Lindsay has joined Orco Property Group's hospitality division as CEO. Orco is an investor, developer and asset manager...
Taking A Direct Hit
Buyers of commercial real estate properties with net leases in place have long considered these assets to be a safe haven because of their bond-like ability...
Names In The News
Michael Cello joins UGL Equis' Chicago headquarters office as vice president. He will be responsible for leveraging strategic guidance and implementing...
SHRINKING VALUES, GROWING ANXIETY
Since the onset of the credit crunch last August, many investors have watched with dismay as their commercial real estate holdings have fallen in value....
TOP 25 BROKERAGES
This listing is based on responses to NREI's Top Brokerage survey, which was conducted via e-mail in February and March 2008. Brokers were asked to provide...
Multiple Hat Syndrome
As the U.S. economy erodes and leasing and investment sales stall, commercial real estate brokerages are aggressively growing their global footprint while...
Fear of Regulation
The drumbeat for reform in the residential mortgage market due to lax underwriting standards has been growing in recent months, but there has been virtually...
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Greg Wattson has joined Opus West Corp. as vice president of retail development for the western region. He will oversee retail development opportunities...
CalSTRS Discloses Investment Strategy
Institutional investors are notoriously mum when it comes to divulging specifics about their investment strategies. But the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, better known as CalSTRS, has a fairly open-book policy when it comes to informing its members about the inner workings of its real estate investment portfolio....
Commercial Property Sales Slow to a Crawl
Year-over-year sales volume in major commercial property sectors took a tumble in January, as buyers and sellers grew farther apart in their pricing expectations, showing a clear lack of portfolios up for grabs, the kind that drove 2007 sales volume into record territory....
A Hotelier's Dream
Sant Singh Chatwal Age: 64 Company: Hampshire Hotels & Resorts LLC Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Time in current role: 29 years Currently...
Retail Without Borders
David Henry Age: 58 Company: Kimco Realty Corp. Title: Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Time in current role: 7 years Currently reading: A Peculiar...
Changing Coastal Skylines
Veronica Hackett Age: 62 Company: The Clarett Group Title: Managing Partner Time in current role: Eight years Currently reading: The Great Escape: Nine...
Seniors Housing Encore
David Freshwater Age: 53 Company: The Freshwater Group Inc. Title: President Time in current role: 2.5 years Currently reading: Gone Fishin' by Walter...
Hey, Big Spender
Bob Aisner Age: 61 Company: Behringer Harvard Funds Title: President and Chief Operating Officer Time in current role: Five years Currently reading: The...
Real Estate Renaissance Man
Howard Michaels Age: 52 Company: Carlton Group Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Time in current role: 16 years Currently reading: Two-foot...
Staying Upbeat
John Murray Age: 47 Company: Hospitality Properties Trust Title: President Time in current role: 12 years Currently reading: by Nathaniel Philbrick Since...
Greening a 1.7 Billion Sq. Ft. Portfolio
Sally Wilson Age: 48 Company: CB Richard Ellis Title: Global Director of Environmental Strategy Time in current role: Four years Currently reading: Come...
Building Under Pressure
Multifamily REITs are developing billions of dollars of projects in the face of dual threats that jeopardize several quarters of rent increases in most...
Names in the News
Raymond Torto has joined CB Richard Ellis in Boston as global chief economist. He will direct a team of commercial real estate market analysts and serve...
Ultimate Hotel Makeovers
The $85 million overhaul of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in 2001 was still fresh in management's mind last year when another remodeling of the...
