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December 1, 2007
Cover Story
A Time to Defend
A number of unfavorable market forces are closing in on commercial real estate investors, threatening to compromise asset values in 2008. After a tremendous...
Features
Office Rally Running Out of Gas
Office landlords have enjoyed falling vacancies and rising rents during the past three years. But the sector's underlying property fundamentals are likely...
Consumers Finally Take a Breather
For the last several years consumers defied economists' expectations and kept raising their level of spending despite rising energy prices. But predictions...
Condo Glut Weighs on Apartment Market
When the housing market falters, the apartment market typically benefits from higher demand. But that hasn't been the case in 2007. Gains in the multifamily...
Industrial Flexes Its Muscle
Industrial tenants across the country are bracing for rental rate sticker shock the kind of hefty increases experienced in Southern California. Demand...
Will Hotel Investment Frenzy Fizzle?
The prosperity of the U.S. hotel industry has always tracked the fortunes of the general economy. The lodging sector sank into its last major downturn...
Downtown Los Angeles Goes Upscale
Less than a decade ago, downtown Los Angeles was pocked with vacant eyesores aging office and industrial buildings emptied out in the 1990s during an...
Growth Amid A Downturn
The commercial paper market is in disarray, real estate lending has ground to a halt in many markets, and mortgage brokers everywhere are running for...
First Word
As The Economy Turns Softer, The Noise Grows Ever Louder
With 2007 barreling to a tumultuous close, many investors are struggling to assess the state of the commercial real estate industry, which from a capital...
Landmarks & Leaders
Visionary Future from Historic Past for New York's 545 Madison Avenue
When 545 Madison Avenue reopens in May 2008 in New York City, it won't at all resemble the original model. For starters, the 17-story office building...
Developments
Battle Against Southeast Drought Heats Up
While three governors wrangle over water amid the Southeast's worst drought in decades, commercial real estate firms are adopting measures more familiar...
Chicago's West Loop Upgrade Spurs Retail Overhaul
Presidential Towers, a $470 million apartment development located in a once-derelict section of Chicago's West Loop, will undergo a major retail renovation....
Q & A
When a Goldman Sachs representative called Mark Schurgin, president of Los Angeles-based The Festival Cos., two years ago, the caller wanted to discuss...
New Study Slams Proposed Tax Hike
The latest assault in the heated battle over legislation that could double taxes on real estate partnerships and private equity firms comes in the form...
In Progress: Midtown Crossing at Turner Park
DEVELOPER: ECI Investment Advisors Inc. LOCATION: Omaha SIZE: Three city blocks, including more than 1 million sq. ft. and 565 residential units. PROJECTED...
Rebound for Rust Belt City
As Cleveland struggles with a litany of economic problems ranging from the loss of manufacturing jobs to a high home foreclosure rate, it is rebounding...
Names In The News
Adam E. Rochlin has joined Onyx Equities, a private equities and real estate investment firm, as vice president of asset management. He will be responsible...
Midtown Atlanta Lures Luxury Hotelier
When native Atlantans think of the Loews brand, they're typically referring to the former Loews Grand Theater in which Gone With the Wind premiered in...
Deals & Projects
JPI, a Texas-based development firm, has acquired Maritime Yards, a mixed-use development in South Norwalk, Conn., from Maritime Yards LLC for $50.5 million....
World Beat
Will Poverty Derail Development in India?
India's astounding growth certainly catches the imagination of foreign investors. With annual GDP of 8.5%, property prices climbing by double digits,...
The Experts
Back to the Basics for Wall Street
The offices of Wall Street's rocket scientists are silent these days, particularly as the work of these number-crunching gurus relates to the real estate...
Big Boxes, Industrial Plants Unfairly Taxed
In many states, the war over property tax assessments based on value to the owner as opposed to market value has ended with a clear victory for market...
The Great Real Estate Credit Freeze of 2007
By late October 2007, U.S. credit markets for most real estate lending became almost frozen because of uncertainty among both lenders and borrowers about...
Making A Business Case for Green Building
In Georgia, we call a politician with a particularly sugary tongue someone who can talk the birds from the trees. No doubt, little green birds were dropping...
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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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