NREI Investor Trends
Finance: Investors
Tenants Appeal to Lease Auditors for Rent Relief
Cash-strapped commercial real estate tenants are increasingly turning to the services of lease auditors to pare expenses and free up capital for other...
Emeritus Acquisition Streak Continues In Seniors Housing Arena
Dan Baty has a straightforward growth plan for Emeritus Corp. He intends to acquire as much real estate as possible over the next two years. Not only...
Jonathan Gray is Blackstone's Premier Dealmaker
Jonathan Gray, senior managing director at New York-based private equity giant The Blackstone Group, has built a reputation for his bold growth strategy...
Kingsley Greenland Presides Over DebtX's Marketplace for Loans
The Debt Exchange, better known as DebtX, is drawing national interest from investors seeking to buy loans, including distressed commercial mortgages....
PNC's Diana Reid Navigates Challenging Finance Arena
Diana Reid is in the thick of things when it comes to the quagmire of commercial real estate financing. Reid is executive vice president of PNC Real Estate,...
Michael Schwartz Uses Cash to Unlock Values in Self-Storage
In 1991, Michael Schwartz bought his first piece of real estate his house from the Resolution Trust Corp. He sold the New York home years later at a hefty...
Stockbridge Capital's Steve Steppe Plans a Shopping Spree
Steve Steppe, managing partner of San Francisco-based Stockbridge Capital Partners, has made some expensive acquisitions since he left the chairmanship...
Campus Habitat's Oliver Swan Employs Old-Fashioned Values
Over the phone, nobody would know Oliver Swan is 29. Neither his position as chief investment officer for student housing owner and operator Campus Habitat...
TIC Pioneer Tony Thompson Courts Government Clients in New Venture
When he was an eighth grader in Cunningham, Kan., Tony Thompson took an aptitude test that revealed his true calling. My number one aptitude was not attorney,...
La Quinta's Rajiv Trivedi Grows Hotel Franchise From Within
Despite the economy's near devastating impact on the lodging sector, Rajiv Trivedi opened 81 new La Quinta Inns and Suites last year. In addition, the...
How to Maximize Your 1031 Exchange
Like-kind exchanges allowed under Section 1031 of the tax code are a valuable method of deferring the payment of capital gains taxes on the sale of qualified...
Wading Back In After the Fall
With the economy in the early stages of recovery, life insurance companies feel it's safe to re-enter the commercial real estate lending market on a limited...
The Art of Loan Restructuring
As if the economy and the tight credit markets were not enough, real estate developers are faced with a new challenge. Banks are informing developers...
The Domino Effect
The credit crunch and recession set in motion a chain reaction across all disciplines of commercial real estate, with repercussions that are still playing...
10 to Watch: Driven
David Simon doesn't like to take no for an answer. The chairman and CEO of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group didn't grow his company into the nation's...
Title insurers find strength through consolidation
The companies that verify ownership of real estate are particularly dependent on transaction activity to drive demand for their services. In 2009, deal...
Is Washington Stifling Recovery?
Uncertainty over future tax burdens and the availability of credit is driving U.S. businesses to hoard cash rather than lead the economic recovery, according...
William Lindsay: Making a mark in growing business of distressed loans
The ripple effects from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing in September 2008 are still being felt across the commercial real estate industry. This...
Small Banks Threaten U.S. Economy
Unless there is a strong and immediate improvement in the U.S. economy, it is likely to receive yet another sucker punch from the $1.4 trillion in commercial...
Are Investors Prepared to Buy Distressed Properties?
Investors in 2010 expect to find commercial real estate opportunities priced at a fraction of past values. Yet despite investor demand and a flood of...
Survival Mode
The credit crunch and recession are testing the endurance of mortgage bankers. After two years of slack demand for commercial real estate loans, the thinned...
2010 - The Start of the New Decade
When I reflect on this past year, three words that come to mind are volatile, adaptive and surreal. I remember saying in the beginning of the year that...
O Jobs, Where Art Thou?
Until business investment accelerates, any recovery in the U.S. labor market will be muted, says Georgia State University economist Dr. Rajeev Dhawan,...
Proposed Tax Change for Real Estate Partnerships Has Investors Seeing Red
Several major commercial real estate groups are fighting a proposed federal tax provision that they say would have a devastating effect on real estate...
Lenders Face Costly Problem
The tide of underwater commercial mortgages is rapidly turning into the Great Flood. More than 36% of the $270 billion in commercial real estate loans...
