‘Phantom’ Vacancy Haunts Office Market as Job Losses Mount
Amid rising unemployment and weakening demand for space, the U.S. office vacancy rate rose to 13% in the third quarter. ...
Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town Loan Falls to Special Servicer
The owners of the massive Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartments, which occupy 80 prime acres in Manhattan, have suffered a major blow with the transfer of the property’s $3 billion loan to a special servicer. ...
Real Estate Economists Parse October Jobs Report
The October employment report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics last Friday reflects a familiar but troubling pattern for a commercial real estate industry desperately seeking green shoots....
Missing the Boat
Amid an avalanche of pessimistic commercial real estate forecasting, many investors continue to wait for a market bottom before buying distressed notes, properties and securities....
Will New FDIC Bank Rules Help or Harm Commercial Real Estate?
The federal government’s newly issued banking guidelines will have a major impact on the commercial real estate industry and the nation’s financial system by forestalling another banking crisis and preventing the write-off of billions of dollars worth of loans, says the senior managing director of New York-based global real estate firm FirstService Williams. ...
LoopNet Survey Shows Fading Hopes for Commercial Real Estate Recovery in 2010
When will the commercial real estate market hit bottom and begin to recover? Nearly half of respondents (46%) to a LoopNet survey believe that the market transaction volume won’t recover until 2011 or later, up from 13% in July. ...
CalPERS Goes On the Offensive to Combat ‘Misinformation’
In a radical departure from its media-shy nature, the nation’s largest pension fund is launching a new online campaign to help counteract an avalanche of challenges in recent months....
U.S. Office Market Forecast to Bottom in 2010
The U.S. office market vacancy rate is expected to hit 18.6% in 2010. That would be close to, but would not surpass the historic high of 19.3% set in 1990,according to analysis from CBRE Econometric Advisors. Vacancy is expected to moderate as demand increases in 2011. ...
Surge in GDP Does Little to Improve Outlook for Commercial Real Estate
The U.S. economy expanded at a 3.5% annual pace in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported today, but what does that mean for a beleaguered commercial real estate industry suffering from rising vacancies and falling rents? ...
Global Markets Begin to Recover as U.S. Lags Behind
Governments have taken extraordinary measures to jolt the global economy back to life and their efforts are working, according to a new report by Chicago-based brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle. ...
City of Big Shoulders Is Tops for Seniors Housing Development, But Will that Weigh it Down?
Forget about the failed Olympic bid or another disappointing season for the Cubs. Chicago is second to none in seniors housing. In fact, the Chicago area heads the list of big metro markets with the most new units under construction. ...
Capmark Financial Group Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
One of the nation’s largest lenders, Horsham, Pa.-based Capmark Financial Group, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying it intends to restructure to reduce its corporate debt....
Troubled CMBS Loans Skyrocket as Special Servicers Wrestle with Backlog
Since January, the volume of troubled commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loans sent to special servicers for resolution has risen a startling 300%, and more losses are expected, according to a new report by New York-based Fitch Ratings. ...
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