NREI Investor Trends
Finance: Investors
Developers Bet a Fortune on Vegas
CityCenter arrived on the Las Vegas Strip like a diva, dripping in sequins and shiny architectural garments. And why not, since the hotel, casino and...
Howard Paster: Venerable retail owner in Twin Cities makes its mark
Paster Enterprises is the quintessential owner and manager of community shopping centers. For more than 60 years, the St. Paul, Minn.-based company has...
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...
Ailing CMBS Loans Enter Rehab
No one expected it. Delinquent commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which amounted to less than $20 billion in October of 2008, mushroomed to...
Buyers Stunned By Rising Debt Prices
Existing issues of mortgage-backed bonds secured by longer-term, fixed-rate loans are now trading at about 85 cents on the dollar. The trading levels...
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
Keith Lindsay has joined Orco Property Group's hospitality division as CEO. Orco is an investor, developer and asset manager...
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
Michael Cello joins UGL Equis' Chicago headquarters office as vice president. He will be responsible for leveraging strategic guidance and implementing...
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
Greg Wattson has joined Opus West Corp. as vice president of retail development for the western region. He will oversee retail development opportunities...
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...
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....
10 TO WATCH
A year ago, commercial real estate executives enjoyed one of the healthiest markets in history, symbolized by a record annual $102.8 billion in REIT mergers...
