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January 1, 2010
COVER STORY
Survival Mode
The credit crunch and recession are testing the endurance of mortgage bankers. After two years of slack demand for commercial real estate loans, the thinned...
Features
Ailing CMBS LOANS Enter Rehab
No one expected it. Delinquent commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which amounted to less than $20 billion in October of 2008, mushroomed to...
Developers Bet a Fortune on Vegas
CityCenter arrived on the Las Vegas Strip like a diva, dripping in sequins and shiny architectural garments. And why not, since the hotel, casino and...
Retail Tenants Appeal for Rent Relief
Across the country, thousands of battered retailers emerging from the worst sales year on record are pleading with their landlords to throw them a lifeline...
Research
2010 Borrower Trends: All Is Quiet on The Lending Front
Borrowers are less optimistic now than they were a year ago on the issue of whether the credit crunch in commercial real estate will ease over the next...
Developments
Shale Of A Run for Fort Worth
While the livestock trade is part of Fort Worth's rich heritage, the present and future vitality of the city and its commercial real estate markets lies...
O Jobs, Where Art Thou?
Until business investment accelerates, any recovery in the U.S. labor market will be muted, says Georgia State University economist Dr. Rajeev Dhawan,...
New Beginning for Erickson Retirement Communities
After an 18-hour auction, Redwood Capital Investments emerged as the winner with a bid of $365 million for Erickson Retirement Communities, a company...
Proposed Tax Change for Real Estate Partnerships Has Investors Seeing Red
Several major commercial real estate groups are fighting a proposed federal tax provision that they say would have a devastating effect on real estate...
Lenders Face Costly Problem
The tide of underwater commercial mortgages is rapidly turning into the Great Flood. More than 36% of the $270 billion in commercial real estate loans...
Q&A
Howard Paster: Venerable retail owner in Twin Cities makes its mark
Paster Enterprises is the quintessential owner and manager of community shopping centers. For more than 60 years, the St. Paul, Minn.-based company has...
People and Projects
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Gerard Hallock has joined FirstService Williams as executive managing director of the firm's Stamford, Conn. office. Hallock will oversee all brokerage...
DEALS & PROJECTS
Investment firm W.P. Carey & Co. through CPA:17-Global, one of its publicly held, non-traded REIT affiliates, has purchased the corporate headquarters...
DEALS & PROJECTS
Lodgian Inc., an independent hotel owner and operator, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Lone Star Funds (Lone...
Columns
Is Government Helping Or Hurting Borrowers?
In the wake of extraordinary steps taken by the federal government to pick the U.S. economy off the mat including the $700 billion TARP program to bail...
2010 - The Start of the New Decade
When I reflect on this past year, three words that come to mind are volatile, adaptive and surreal. I remember saying in the beginning of the year that...
Lending Trumps Buying
The highly anticipated barrage of commercial real estate notes at steep discounts turned out to be just a trickle for much of 2009. Aside from the recent...
Better Times Ahead for Apartments
Though the apartment market is seeing signs of financial stabilization, and the longer-term outlook for apartments remains good, in the short run the...
Break Up Lenders Too Big to Fail
Big U.S. banks are making profits again primarily because the Federal Reserve subsidizes them. It lends the banks money at very low federal funds rates....
Are Investors Prepared to Buy Distressed Properties?
Investors in 2010 expect to find commercial real estate opportunities priced at a fraction of past values. Yet despite investor demand and a flood of...
How to Contest Clawback Provisions
The race among states and cities to lure new companies and retain existing businesses has been furious, featuring aggressive offerings of significant...
Subleasing Rules for the Road
When Associates Commercial Corp. needed more office space and wanted to move, it hoped the process would be easy. There was a tenant in the same building...
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Podcast
Commercial Real Estate: Hey, Save a Piece of Stimulus Pie for Me!
Following a year that saw the near meltdown of the banking system, 2010 could shape up to be a better year for investors, though perhaps not as robust as some would wish.
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Podcast
Is the Recession Over?
Rick Mattoon, senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, shares the latest numbers from the Fed's National Activity Index that show the economy is experiencing a fairly sharp rebound from the bottom of the Great Recession.
Webinars
2010: The Year of the Sale - Leaseback
This webinar provides brokers, bankers, developers, CFOs and real estate executives with a blueprint for accessing the many facets of the sale-leaseback model.
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