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November/December 2009
Cover Story
Getting Off the Dime
There's no shortage of bad news and the sheer volume of it can be paralyzing for investors. Forecasters predict that the first half of 2010 will be an...
In 2010, Will Investors Who Hesitate Be Lost?
While German and Chinese investors are already buying assets at discounted prices, many domestic investors are hoping to time the market to pick up even...
Office Steals Tantalize
Across the country, office properties are for sale at sizzling discounts compared with prices of just a year ago. But whether investors have the cash...
Multifamily Problems Multiply
While the pace of monthly job losses is clearly slowing, financial problems for the U.S. apartment industry are growing. The combination of several quarters...
Industrial Firms Tighten Belts
It has been a rough year for major players on the nation's industrial fields. So rough, in fact, that new patterns are emerging to help companies scrimp...
Tsunami of Foreclosures In Doubt
With consumer sentiment flagging and job losses mounting, the road ahead isn’t getting any easier for the shopping center industry. ...
Chilly Winter for Hotels
The U.S. economy has been downright inhospitable to the hospitality industry. Not only have hotel sales plunged to a fraction of last year's deals, but...
Features
Tarnished Gold
The stretch of Madison Avenue starting at 57th Street and continuing through the upper 60s has not historically been associated with hard times. Yet the...
Research
Green Building
Doubling Down on Green
The past two years have been brutal for U.S. businesses and their employees. That reality has trickled down to commercial real estate owners and landlords who have been grappling with how to pay debt service on properties with rising vacancies and falling rents....
Signs of Stabilization
Demand for seniors housing is on the rise, with assisted living and dementia care leading the way. Leasing activity at seniors housing facilities increased...
Developments
CoStar Drills for Data, Uncovers Gold Mine
If there’s one lesson that the long, harrowing months of recession and financial crisis have taught, it’s that in a global downturn there are few safe harbors. Stocks, bonds, and commercial real estate can all suffer brutal declines in value. ...
Starwood Capital Counts its Spoils
Now that Starwood Capital Group's conquest of failed Corus Bank's $4.5 billion portfolio is completed, the private equity firm is prowling for new deals,...
Aviation Park Envisioned Near Atlanta
On the 15th floor of his office building overlooking Atlantic Station, Jim Jacoby sits in the conference room, the sleeves of his plaid shirt rolled up...
Famed Watergate For Sale
After sitting abandoned for two years on the bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the legendary Watergate Hotel has attracted a suitor bearing...
Q&A
William Hoffman: Receiver braces for a much bigger book of business
William Hoffman's singular focus on non-performing commercial real estate loans makes him a highly popular figure on the speaking circuit these days....
Columns
Metro Atlantans, Georgia feel sting of recession
A notorious boom and bust market, metro Atlanta is taking its lumps these days. Emerging Trends in Real Estate, an annual forecast produced jointly by...
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....
Why Most Bankers Aren't Lending
The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve have dramatically tried to stimulate bankers to start lending on U.S. commercial real estate. Yet most bankers...
Thinking Outside the Box
Why do taxing authorities recognize intangibles for hospitality properties, but not shopping center properties? The answer may be the way mall intangibles...
Pros and Cons of Loan Assumptions
In the commercial real estate market, the availability of credit has diminished significantly over the past few years. The Mortgage Bankers Association...
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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.
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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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