April 1, 2011

Cover Story

The Morphing Brokerage: Companies Reinvent Themselves as They Battle for Clients

Apr 13, 2011 8:05 AM, By Denise Kalette, NREI Managing Editor

When a distressed portfolio of 13 former Mervyns stores came to market in California and Arizona recently, several of the nation’s biggest brokerages competed for the deal, valued at more than $100 million. ...

Features

Top 25 Brokerages

Apr 1, 2011 12:00 PM, Denise Kalette

The past year has been a very good one for many of the nation's top brokerages. Revenues rose substantially at several brokerage firms as the commercial...

Office Investors Buy Vacancy in a Risky Bet on Higher Yields

Apr 7, 2011 1:03 PM, By Joe Gose, NREI Contributing Writer

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. ...

Property Valuations Improve in Primary Markets, but Other Regions Struggle

Apr 7, 2011 1:25 PM, By Matt Hudgins, NREI Contributing Writer

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. ...

Self-Storage REITs Poach Business Away From Smaller Operators

Apr 4, 2011 8:13 AM, By Beth Mattson-Teig, NREI Contributing Writer

Self-storage may not be the most glamorous sector of the commercial real estate industry, but this niche has been dazzling investors...

Developers Race to Build in Dallas, But Financing Remains a Wild Card

Apr 7, 2011 1:35 PM, By Ben Johnson, NREI Contributing Writer

Despite a vacancy rate of nearly 29% in downtown Dallas, four developers are jockeying for position to build new office towers. ...

Developments

Hotel Borrowers Caught In ‘No Man’s Land’ As Default Looms

Mar 23, 2011 12:26 PM, By Denise Kalette, NREI Managing Editor

Some hotel borrowers are venting their frustration over special servicers’ unavailability for advice at the same time the hoteliers face the threat of default....

Closings Loom as Sears Holdings Continues to Struggle

Mar 24, 2011 10:01 AM, By Elaine Misonzhnik,Retail Traffic Associate Editor

While the retail industry’s attention in recent weeks has been focused on Borders' Chapter 11 filing, there is another retail giant with a massive store portfolio that may be raising alarm bells in the near future. ...

Corporate Real Estate Executives Expect Another Pay Raise in 2011

Mar 23, 2011 10:36 AM, By NREI Staff

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of the participants in a global survey of senior level corporate real estate and workplace executives reported that they received an increase in their base salary last year...