July 1, 2002

Departments

Wal-Mart's Next Frontier?

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, Mike Fickes

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., whose discount emporiums have become a fixture of the rural and suburban landscape, is now looking for growth in urban markets,...

OWNERS: PREOCCUPIED WITH OCCUPANCY

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Matt Valley

WHAT KEEPS SENIOR OPERATING OFFICERS of the nation's largest office REIT awake at night? In a word occupancy. If you look at our industry, there is some...

DEVELOPERS: AN EXPANDING EMPIRE

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Jessica Miller

DESPITE THE ECONOMIC HAILSTORM of recent months, office development giant Hines has emerged relatively unscathed. And for good reason. Since the early...

OWNERS: PURSUING INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Stephen Ursery

THIS PAST SPRING, ProLogis' (NYSE: PLD) European Properties Fund purchased a 1.8 million sq. ft. portfolio of four distribution centers in France from...

DEVELOPERS: DEALING WITH THE DOWNTURN

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Stephen Ursery

WHEN NATIONAL REAL ESTATE Investor compiled its annual survey of the largest industrial developers this year, Atlanta-based IDI assumed its familiar spot...

DIRECT LENDERS: BIGGER WACHOVIA SEEKS BIGGER SHARE

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Upendra Mishra

THE SEPTEMBER 2001 MERGER OF WACHOVIA and First Union has not only created a banking giant Wachovia Corp. with 20 million customers and $322 billion in...

INTERMEDIARIES: GROWTH SPURT CONTINUES FOR GMAC

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Upendra Mishra

AFTER ORIGINATING $19.3 BILLION in real estate loans in 2001 and claiming the No. 2 spot on NREI's Top Financial Intermediaries survey, GMAC Commercial...

READY TO POUNCE

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Steve Webb

IF ANY PERIOD COULD BE CONSIDERED THE WORST OF TIMES for a company, it would be the fourth quarter of 2001 for Host Marriott Corp. (NYSE: HMT). Like its...

Developments

Counting on a Rebound

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM

Loews Hotels has just opened its third and biggest resort in the land of theme parks. A few months ago, prospects for another 1,000-room hotel in the...

NEED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS RISING

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, Stephen Ursery

A new report by the Millennial Housing Commission confirms what advocates of affordable housing have claimed: More Americans are finding it impossible...

TAMPA THE CULTURE MECCA. REALLY.

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, Jessica Miller

Tampa, a city of 2.3 million located on Florida's Gulf Coast, is known for football, beaches and urban sprawl. Now the city wants to be known for its...

APARTMENT OWNERS: A BOOM YEAR

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Stephen Ursery

NO COMPANY ENJOYED A MORE DYNAMIC YEAR in 2001 than New York-based Related Capital Co., according to the National Multi Housing Council's (NMHC) annual...

APARTMENT MANAGERS: A YEAR OF GROWTH

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Stephen Ursery

LAST YEAR WAS A VERY ACTIVE ONE FOR ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-based Archstone-Smith (NYSE:ASN) and that is reflected in the REIT's performance in the National...

Columns

High Anxiety

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, Matt Valley Editor

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE OF US WHO DON'T WORK IN SIGNATURE, high-rise office buildings to fully comprehend the feelings of anxiety and vulnerability...

Features

CHARTING INDUSTRY TRENDS

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM

U.S. HOTEL/REVENUES San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., experienced the most dramatic decline in revenue per available room (RevPAR) nationally last year....

MID-YEAR MARKET REPORT

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, BY BETH MATTSON-TEIG

HALFWAY THROUGH THE YEAR, Enrique Wong has completed just seven deals about half of what he did during the first six months of 2001. Investors, owners...

FOLLOWING THE MONEY

Jul 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Jessica Miller

FOR CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD INC., THE key to global growth is the one-two punch of strategy and the infrastructure to support it. And that approach has helped...