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May 1, 2007
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PRIVATE EQUITY'S COSTLY SHOPPING SPREE
Private equity funds have hoarded companies in just about every industry in a frenzied leveraged buyout spree that started early this decade and has yet to subside....
Features
Now Showing: Movie Theater Expansion, Part II
Last June, Harkins Theatres, an Arizona-based movie theater chain, made its debut in California, opening with a state-of-the-art, 16-screen cinema complex in a mall in Moreno Valley....
Green Design Goes Mainstream
Even the mainstream media has noticed the revolution in green building, but when the subject comes up, flashy office projects tend to get the attention....
Site Selection: The Secret Sauce
Marco's Pizza is hungry for a bigger slice of the $37 billion U.S. pizza industry. By the end of 2011, the Toledo, Ohio-based chain of pizza restaurants plans to operate 1,500 store locations in 40 states....
Has Lending Peaked?
When Tishman Speyer plunked down $1.8 billion to buy the 41-story 666 Fifth Avenue building in Midtown Manhattan in December 2006, the transaction not only set the record for the highest price ever paid for an office property at $1,200 per sq. ft., it also symbolized the frenzied lending markets that elevated 2006 to a pivotal year in commercial real estate finance...
16th Annual Top Lenders Survey: Rankings of direct lenders and financial intermediaries
The following rankings are based on responses to NREI's 16th annual Top Lenders Survey questionnaire and reflect total dollars financed or arranged in commercial real estate during the 2006 calendar year....
Big Easy Heads for Higher Ground
Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of New Orleans, the city is reinventing itself geographically and literally scrambling northward onto higher ground....
Turning Idleness Into Opportunity
The contraction of the U.S. manufacturing base continues to pummel North American automakers. Ford Motor Co. announced plans last September to close 16 factories by 2012 and slash 30,000 hourly and 7,000 salaried jobs from its payroll...
Infinite Opportunity Awaits MBA Grads
When Stan Ross began his real estate career in 1961, the industry wasn't nearly as sophisticated as it is today. Career opportunities were limited to development, construction, property management and basic finance....
Family Tradition
Edward L. Meder Age: 30 Degree: Master of Business Administration College: Northwestern University Long-term career goal: Real estate finance and development...
High Aspirations
Dawn M. Clayton Age: 32 Degree: Master of Science in Real Estate and Construction Management College: University of Denver Long-term career goal: Focus on asset management or acquisition management...
Asia Dreamin'
Ryan Kvalvik Age: 27 Degree: MBA/Master of Real Estate Development College: University of Southern California Long-term career goal: To develop green office and industrial buildings...
Las Vegas Hungers for Retail
The high-octane gaming and tourism industries have fueled record growth in the entertainment capital of Las Vegas, creating a booming retail services market that has sparked development...
Developments
Price Appreciation Clouds CMBS Risks
Aggressive underwriting will lead to increased defaults in the latest crop of loans earmarked for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), warns Fitch Ratings....
Savannah Renaissance
Developers are betting $800 million that shoppers, workers and new residents will be drawn to a 54-acre site in the historic city of Savannah, on whose streets Civil War generals, cotton merchants, and the writer Flannery O'Connor once strolled...
Demographic Disconnect
Atlanta and Dallas have led the nation in population growth since 2000, but these Sunbelt metros continue to show stubbornly high office vacancy rates....
Residential Boom in Boise
Twenty years ago, downtown Boise was desolate and cratered with abandoned buildings, a stark contrast to the city's picturesque setting in the Rocky Mountain foothills...
Names In The News
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Jim Sutphen has joined Regency Centers as vice president of construction. He will be responsible for overseeing the design, construction and project management of new development for the firm's Chicago and Cincinnati offices....
Deals And Projects
In Progress: Pacific City
DEVELOPER: Makar Properties LLC LOCATION: Huntington Beach, Calif. SIZE: The development will feature 161,000 sq. ft. of specialty retail, restaurants and entertainment and 30,000 sq. ft. of office space. It also includes a 196-room boutique hotel and 516 upscale residences....
DEALS & PROJECTS
Carlsbad Development I has acquired Falcon Glen Apartments in Mesa, Ariz. for $31.5 million. IDB Investments sold the 402-unit property that consists of 240 two-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom townhouse units, 80 one-bedroom units and 82 two-bedroom units....
JAPANESE HOTEL PORTFOLIO FETCHES RECORD PRICE
In the largest Asian hotel portfolio sale on record, Morgan Stanley in March agreed to pay $2.4 billion for 13 luxury hotels in Japan. The seller was All Nippon Airways Co., Japan's second largest airline, which is shedding non-strategic assets...
Columns
Yes, Brokerage Firms Can Thrive on Wall Street
The leveraged buyout epidemic currently spreading throughout the retail industry shows no signs of retreating anytime soon. There continue to be mega-deals and rumors of even more deals....
Executives on Education: From the Classroom to the Real World
As Class of 2007 MBA students trade in their backpacks for briefcases, more are opting for careers in real estate. ...
World Beat
O Sole Macao Four hundred fifty years after the Portuguese beat them to the punch in colonizing Macao, the Venetians would appear to be making a surprising comeback....
Small-Cap Attraction
Even though small-cap commercial real estate transactions often involve investors who are not institutional players, these assets certainly attract institutional-scale lenders. ...
Welcome to the Global Capital Markets
Commercial/multifamily delinquency rates did not jump on Tuesday, Feb. 27. There were no reports of falling rents or increasing vacancy rates. No new signs of over-construction or increased balloon risk....
A Stubborn Affordable Housing Problem
The dark days of the apartment market recession are officially over. While there are no recognized landmarks for determining which phase of the cycle we might be in, from my perspective it is clear that the national apartment market is in an expansion phase...
Trickle-Down Effect
Rising gas prices and the subprime fiasco continue to dominate headlines, alerting the brokerage community to be wary of the near future. ...
Tax Breaks in Jeopardy?
The battle lines have been drawn in Congress over the federal budget for fiscal year 2007, which officially begins Oct. 1. Some industry experts fear casualties of the standoff will be bedrock tax breaks for the commercial real estate industry...
Leasing Changes Afoot
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) established current lease accounting standards over 30 years ago. Since then, lease transactions have exploded in size and complexity....
Chic Redevelopment for Old Mall
In Riverside, Calif., one of the nation's fastest-growing cities, investors took a chance on a foreclosed, half-century-old mall, poured millions of dollars into it, and are now nearly finished leasing the transformed space...
Q & A
Stacey Berger: Weak underwriting standards cloud booming CMBS market As executive vice president of Kansas City-based Midland Loan Services, Stacey Berger oversees a $228.4 billion commercial loan-servicing portfolio....
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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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