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October 1, 2006
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The New POWER PLAYERS in Office Investing
There's a new force to be reckoned with in the office market. Over the past 18 months, the top private equity firms in the U.S. have plowed roughly $10 billion into the office sector....
Features
Space Crunch
On one hand, apartments are fully occupied with waiting lists longer than the St. Charles streetcar line. On the other, post-Katrina construction costs and flood-elevation concerns have made it nearly impossible to meet the overwhelming demand...
Railroad Renaissance
The surging flow of imports to U.S. consumers is fueling a boom in the century-old railroad industry, and savvy real estate investors are already laying tracks for growth along newly flourishing supply routes...
Denver Gets on Fast Track
Long haunted by the economic mood swings of the oil and technology industries, Denver's office market is at last experiencing steadily increasing demand fueled by healthy population gains and job growth....
Hungry for Restaurants
Restaurants that were once a taboo real estate investment are now a hot commodity with more than $4 billion in net-lease restaurant properties expected...
Big Demand for Small Malls
When he formed GK Development Inc. in suburban Chicago in 1995, Garo Kholamian figured that he was too small and underfinanced to jump into the regional mall business that had been his stock and trade at the old Homart Development Co....
Hilton Elevates Its Game
In light of the aggressive growth strategy of Hilton Hotels Corp., the observation could be made that the only place it's not planning to plant a flag may be the moon....
Developments
Commercial Real Estate Lenders Riled Up
A proposal by federal regulators to more closely scrutinize banks with large concentrations of commercial real estate (CRE) loans and raise capital requirements threatens to choke a lucrative lending sector,...
Crossing the Hudson
The office market in Midtown Manhattan is blazing hot, with asking rents at prime buildings topping $100 per sq. ft. That has sent some tenants heading for Northern New Jersey where it is possible to find rents in Class-A buildings for less than $35 per sq. ft....
What Bubble?
The lofty sums of money investors are shelling out for commercial real estate assets are at an all-time high, but a recent study found that real prices adjusted for inflation are actually lower now than they were in 1985....
Housing for Seniors Has Hollywood Flair
To attract active retirees, plenty of rental developments offer spiffy clubhouses or classes in conversational Italian. But a new California project goes one step further, focusing on a single theme — the arts....
Targeting Limited-Service
Private equity is pouring into hotels, and RLJ Development has joined the flood. Controlled by Robert L. Johnson, the Bethesda, Md.-based real estate company last month closed its RLJ Lodging Fund II at $743 million....
The Hotel Del Goes Condo-tel
The historic Hotel Del Coronado near downtown San Diego is the latest hostelry to add high-priced condos to its amenities menu. ...
Q & A
David Montross moved up from COO to CEO of Equis Corp. on July 20, when Australia-based United Group Limited (ASX: UGL) completed its acquisition of the formerly private, 400-person real estate services firm. ...
Names In The News
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Robert Ten Eyck has joined Fremont Investment & Loan as a vice president of construction. Ten Eyck will be responsible for managing risk for the Southern California-based firm's growing portfolio of construction loans. ...
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Jeff Jacobson will take on the new role of CEO of LaSalle Investment Management as of Dec. 31, 2006. Jacobson, who is a 16-year veteran of the Chicago and London-based company, will take over the day-to-day management of the firm....
Deals And Projects
In Progress: Signature Place
BUZZ: Signature Place will occupy an entire city block and include 206 condo residences, 40 lofts, 19,313 sq. ft. of retail, 36,737 sq. ft. of office as well as 505 parking spaces....
DEALS & PROJECTS
GIC Real Estate has acquired two newly completed office towers in Munich for $380 million. Houston-based Hines developed the two buildings as part of the Uptown Munchen office campus in 2005. The signature tower, the 38-story Uptown Munchen Tower, is one of the tallest buildings in Bavaria....
DEALS & PROJECTS
Westcore Properties has bought a three-building business park in Fremont, Calif. for $11.2 million. The three properties consist of 128,000 sq. ft. of office and research and development space located on a 7.7-acre parcel....
Columns
Long-term Bond Yield Defies Expectations
As we head into the late innings of '06, economists are now expressing a collective surprise at the rather steep drop in the long-term bond yield in recent months...
PKF Consulting: A True Pioneer in Tracking Hotel Industry Trends
Although the reports were written 69 years apart, they share a lot in common. Each provides an analysis of key hotel metrics, such as occupancy and room rates, and similar economic factors, like the growth of personal income....
REIT Capital Inflows Show Paradigm Shift
When analysts contemplate the recent immense flows of financial capital into real estate, they usually think of the worldwide boom in housing prices. But an equally impressive flood of capital has been funneled into real estate investment trusts....
Student Housing: Recession-Proof?
Unlike the larger rental market, which is subject to economic swings, student housing is recession-resistant, and may well be practically recession-proof....
Timing is Everything
Properties realize their highest value when they are sold at the peak of not one, but three different cycles — the individual asset, geographic market, and capital market cycles....
HOTEL PROJECT POINTS TO BRIGHTER FUTURE
The first new full-service hotel to rise in Monterey, Calif. since the early 1980s is officially under development. ...
Major dilemma for office REITs: buy or build
Private investors have come to dominate office investment sales, and for one very good reason: the added purchasing power of high leverage. ...
Bankers as Brokers?
Two efforts by banks to create a bigger footprint in real estate have met strong resistance, but the fight is far from over. If banks are successful, they'll be competing with brokerage, management, and development firms....
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Photo Galleries
Hudson Yards Development
Check out images for Coach's new global headquarters, which will anchor the initial tower of the Eastern Rail Yards site within the 26-acre mixed-use Hudson Yards Development on Manhattan's far West Side.
Outstanding Women in Commercial Real Estate
From housing low-income families in Southern California to closing some of Manhattan's largest office leases, women leaders are using commercial real estate as a platform to reshape communities while they drive investor returns.
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Videos
2012 MBA CREF/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo Video Blogs
Check out the Vlogs from the 2012 MBA CREF/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo from JLL...
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