NREI Investor Trends
Finance: Investors
CBRE Arranges Land Sale Among Largest in U.S. History
With the sale of 1.283 million acres of land and minerals in Nevada CBRE Group, Inc. has completed one of the largest land sales, by acreage, in U.S. history. The land, which stretches from Reno to the Utah border along Interstate-80, was purchased for $31 million by Florida-based Fountain Investments-owned M.C. Davis and Heath Rushing. ...
Drugstores Offer Prescription for Low-Risk Investors
When Marilyn Kane seeks out commercial properties for her clients to acquire, drugstores are high on her list. ...
HUD Lending Gains Clout as Government-backed Capital Fills Void
It can take months, perhaps even a year, to obtain a multifamily loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Is it worth it? While some borrowers don’t have the patience, more borrowers than ever are saying “yes.”...
Ryan Freedman: Corigin Holdings Increases Footprint In Northeast
A new real estate and private equity company with a strong emphasis on the multifamily and luxury residential sector has launched in New York. Corigin...
Wall Street Takes its Lumps at Lodging Conference
Joel Ross is uniquely qualified to opine on the sharp rise in delinquent hotel loans held in commercial mortgage-backed securities. After all, in 1993...
Time for Banks to Sell Nonperforming Loans?
For the past couple of years, investors in nonperforming loans have besieged bankers with inquiries. Frequent responses from bankers have ranged from “we have no problems” to “we’re handling them internally,” or “we’re waiting for the real estate markets to turn around.”...
Investors Covet Affordable Housing
After spending the past two years scrambling to find financing for affordable housing projects, developers are welcoming the return of investors for their...
Signs of Cash in the Market
Increasing liquidity and low interest rates are enabling more borrowers with securitized debt to replace their loans at maturity, experts say. Some 49.9%...
REIT Employees Get a Raise
Real estate investment trust (REIT) employees saw their total compensation increase by as much as 15% in 2009 as the industry began to recover after one...
Industry braces for lease accounting changes
Proposed new accounting standards have been drafted in order to push lease liabilities back onto corporate balance sheets. Such a change would represent...
Equity REITs Toe the Line on Credit
Liquidity positions of U.S. equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) have strengthened considerably over the past year. After harnessing liquidity...
Opportunity of a Lifetime
The hotel sector went nearly dark through much of 2009 in the face of falling revenues and mounting losses, but big deals are starting to make headlines...
Macroeconomic Distractions
Unfortunately, what should have been significant and encouraging news on the commercial real estate recovery front last month was hardly noticed on the...
Fear Gives Way to Greed
Not only have signs of life returned to commercial real estate finance, but there are also signs that the capital markets are on the mend. As 2010 began,...
Health Care Reform Fires Up Investors
With health care reform enacted, developers and commercial real estate investors are responding to the new demand for medical office space, which could...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
