Q&A: Ethan Penner, Executive Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis Investors
Many industry observers credit Ethan Penner as the inventor of the modern-day commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market. ...
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As the economy goes, so goes the hotel business, and the signs aren't encouraging, says Laurence Geller, president and CEO of Strategic Hotel Properties,...
Q&A: Philip McAndrews of TIAA-CREF
New York-based TIAA-CREF is considered one of the largest institutional real estate investors in the world. The self-described financial services organization has more than $435 billion in total assets under management and about $25 billion in real estate assets. ...
Q&A with Paul Domb, vice president of asset management at United Trust Fund (UTF)
Paul Domb: In times of economic uncertainty, companies want to monetize their real estate Corporate real estate owners have been using sale-leasebacks...
Q&A with OpsTechnology COO Sukhi Singh
Most real estate tech firms find success by remedying the day-to-day administrative headaches that distract commercial real estate operating companies from their prime functions of managing their assets. One such company, OpsTechnology...
Q&A: Bernadette Mussell of L&B Realty Advisors
Alaska may rank as the 49th state to the Union, but its pension fund, the $38.9 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. in Juneau quietly ranks as one of the top real estate investors in the country. The APFC is a state-owned corporation created by a constitutional amendment in 1976 to invest monies on behalf of the state of Alaska. Its real estate portfolio includes $800 million in REIT stocks and nearly $3 billion in properties....
Q & A with Michael Wiener, president and CEO of Excess Space Retail Services
With consumers feeling financially pinched, national retail sales dropped 0.4% in December. For retail property disposition specialist Michael Wiener,...
Q & A with Matthew Bordwin, KPMG Corporate Finance
The credit crunch and a slowing economy will likely act as a business-booster for Matthew Bordwin, managing director and co-group head of real estate...
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When a Goldman Sachs representative called Mark Schurgin, president of Los Angeles-based The Festival Cos., two years ago, the caller wanted to discuss...
Q&A with Rainmaker principal Tammy Farley
On first glance, the two core industries served by Rainmaker Group —apartments and casinos — seem as different as oil and water...
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Craig S. Jones: Seniors housing finance will have a decidedly vanilla flavor in the future.
NREI : How has underwriting changed in seniors housing?
Jones: It seemed like everyone was pushing the box regarding loan-to-value and debt service coverage and insurance......
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William Thomas: Prevailing seniors housing concept lacks any true sense of community Geriatrician William H. Thomas is one of the nation's better-known...
