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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Catch-22 in Mezzanine Lending
Mezzanine lenders are tripping over each other in their haste to accommodate hungry borrowers....
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...
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...
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...
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...
