Retail Sales Rise But Economists Caution that Recovery is a Long Way Off
Although sales increased month over month to $342.1 billion, they were 9% below June 2008 levels, according to the Census Bureau...
Hotel Performance Declines as Travelers Grip Their Wallets
The hotel industry is having a rough summer. According to Fitch Ratings, hotel performance is in decline...
Buyers Prepare to Snatch Troubled Loans From Securitized Pools
Rating agencies are busy reviewing and downgrading existing commercial mortgage-backed securities issued between 2005 and 2007...
Property Managers Fight to Keep Tenants
If the resounding battle cry for property managers a year ago was "drive rental rates," the new mantra is "keep existing tenants and maximize efficiency"...
Eco Hotel Reaches New Heights
Dennis Quaintance, CEO of Quaintance-Weaver Restaurant & Hotels, on being the first in the hospitality industry to obtain the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification...
Green Tidbits
Behringer Harvard has been awarded LEED Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance Gold certification for Bank of America Plaza in New York, an asset in the portfolio of Behringer Harvard REIT I....
Why the Time is Ripe for Brownfield Development
Despite the bleak short-term snapshot of the commercial real estate market, we’re at a new cusp in brownfield redevelopment....
Real Estate Pioneer Ray Watt Dies at 90
Ray Watt, 90, was a real estate pioneer, philanthropist and public servant who played an instrumental role in redefining the real estate industry in the Western United States. He got his start in the business during a housing shortage after World War II. To meet the demand in Southern California he worked from dawn until dark and named his company Day and Night Construction to suggest the hours he was keeping....
Office Aftershocks Forecast for Second Half
With the national office vacancy rate threatening to breach 17% by year’s end and a wave of maturing loans coming due, landlords are working feverishly to clean up their balance sheets and retain tenants. ...
Retail Casualties Predicted to Rise
Don’t be surprised on a long drive to find a strip mall or two abandoned along the highway, flamboyant signs askew and the empty parking lot looking eerily reminiscent of the 1980s, when commercial foreclosures and savings and loan failures were rampant....
Rehab Units Provide Nursing Homes With Additional Revenue Stream
As lawmakers debate health care reform, nursing home owners and operators continue to build rehabilitation units designed for short-term stays in an effort to boost occupancy and improve cash flow. ...
Furious Appraisers Charge Conflict of Interest with Lender-Related Companies
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seasoned residential property appraisers are outraged over current industry practices that they claim allow conflicts of interest by major lenders and their affiliated appraisal management companies, and the appraisers warn that problems could spill over into commercial real estate valuations....
Federal Conservator of Freddie, Fannie Hopes to Avoid ‘Folly’ of Past Lending Practices
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The director of the federal agency serving as conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac says multifamily housing remains an important priority for the enterprises, and he has been meeting weekly with their CEOs as regulators chart a different future for the troubled mortgage insurers....
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