Southeast Is Sweet Spot for Owner of Grocery-Anchored Centers
Joe Dykstra works in what he calls the “scalpel business.” As executive vice president of Westwood Financial Corp., Dykstra scours the retail landscape in major metros for mature, grocery-anchored shopping centers to acquire and add value. ...
Champion Purchase Illustrates Growing Appetite for Risk
A $20 million all-cash acquisition of a heavily vacant, partially redeveloped five-building, mixed-use complex in Hollywood, Calif. out of receivership shows just how much the commercial real estate market has progressed....
Will Commercial Real Estate Provide a Good Hedge Against Inflation?
It seems to be only a matter of time before higher inflation makes its way into official U.S. figures. ...
An Owner’s Guide to the Chaotic World of Hotel Loan Restructuring
The following is intended as a practical guide to owners considering whether and how to restructure a hotel property that can’t support or refinance its current debt....
Baceline Plans to Convert Distressed Retail Center in Metro Dallas Into Medical Office
Baceline Investments LLC has purchased the 37,000 sq. ft. Fountain Village Shopping Center in DeSoto, Texas, a south suburb of Dallas, for $1.2 million, or approximately 60% of the property’s original loan value. ...
Rate of Bank Failures Slows, But Is It a Trend or a Blip?
There were 26 bank failures during the first quarter of 2011, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), the lowest count since the second quarter of 2009. ...
TRECAP Partners Acquires Interest in Second Raleigh Apartment Complex
TRECAP Partners LLC has acquired the majority interest in the Autumn River Apartments, a 284-unit complex in Raleigh, N.C., as part of a joint venture with Bell Partners. ...
KBS REIT II Buys Trophy West Palm Beach Office Tower
KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II (KBS REIT II), a non-traded real estate investment trust, has agreed to acquire City Place Tower, a prestigious 18-story office building in West Palm Beach, Fla., for $126.5 million, plus closing costs....
Developers Race to Build in Dallas, But Financing Remains a Wild Card
Despite a vacancy rate of nearly 29% in downtown Dallas, four developers are jockeying for position to build new office towers. ...
Property Valuations Improve in Primary Markets, but Other Regions Struggle
More than three years after the onset of the financial crisis sent commercial real estate prices plummeting, anemic transaction volume in secondary and tertiary markets still has investors struggling to establish prices and close deals. ...
Office Investors Buy Vacancy in a Risky Bet on Higher Yields
Buying office vacancy has become the next frontier in a rejuvenated investment sales market, an almost incomprehensible notion among most real estate investors a year ago. ...
Extend and Pretend is Quietly Ending As Foreclosure Activity Picks Up
Many investors have criticized the reluctance of lenders to foreclose on defaulted loans, calling it one of the major reasons the real estate decline has proven to be as prolonged and unpredictable as it has....
Tax Grab: Are New York Assessors Inflating Values for the Wrong Reasons?
In the real world of property ownership and development, many taxpayers are experiencing a drop in occupancy for office, hotels and rental apartment buildings. ...
‘Overpriced’ Properties in Coastal Markets Force Institutional Investors To Alter Their Strategy
With heightened tensions in the Middle East, foreign capital pouring into the United States and prices reaching pre-recession levels, institutional investors are hoping to achieve higher returns by exploring opportunities in America’s heartland....
Self-Storage REITs Poach Business Away From Smaller Operators
Self-storage may not be the most glamorous sector of the commercial real estate industry, but this niche has been dazzling investors...
Pollack Partners Buys Distressed Multifamily Property in Nashville for $25.3 Million
Pollack Partners has acquired Velocity in the Gulch, a Class-A luxury rental community in Nashville’s vibrant Gulch submarket, for $25.3 million, plus reserves and closing costs. ...
Viking Partners Purchases $5 Million Note Secured by Shopping Center in West Michigan
Viking Partners Fund I, a private equity real estate investment firm, has acquired a loan note with an unpaid balance of $5 million secured by Grand Pointe Shopping Center in Grandville, Mich. ...
Big-Box Giants Downsize to Drive Productivity with Smaller, Urban Stores
As U.S. chain retailers absorb the lessons of the Great Recession, many big-box chains have started to shrink average store footprints to reflect the growing importance of multi-channel shopping,......
MBA President Courson Resigns. Ex-FHA Commish Gets Job
Mortgage News Daily has learned that John Courson, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, has announced his resignation March 15....
Kite Realty Group Secures a $21M Loan for International Speedway Square
Kite Realty Group secured a $21 million long-term loan for International Speedway Square, a 230,000-square-foot power center in Daytona, Fla. ...
Wanted: 100 New Restaurants in 20 New Markets
Restaurant/tavern/bar chain Bar Louie plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars expanding to more than 100 locations in 20 markets nationwide, including Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, New York City, Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Chicago....
Why Health Care REITs Are Bullish on Seniors Housing
Flush with cash, health care real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been on a buying binge over the past six months, gobbling up nearly $27 billion worth of seniors housing. ...
Senior Housing Properties Trust Signs Deal to Buy 20 Communities for $304 Million
Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH), a giant real estate investment trust, earlier this month signed a deal to acquire 20 senior living communities in five states for approximately $304 million. ...
Eleven Long-Term Care Facilities in Missouri Sell for $27.2 Million to Platinum Health Care
Deaconess Long Term Care Inc. has sold 11 of its facilities in Missouri to affiliates of Platinum Health Care LLC for $27.2 million in an all-cash deal. ...
Sperry Van Ness Secures $100M in Equity for Sale/Leaseback Acquisitions
Sperry Van Ness secured $100 million in private equity cash for purchases of sale/leaseback portfolios. ...
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