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Capmark’s Troubles Highlight Plight of Many CRE Lenders
With more than $1.6 billion in second-quarter losses and plans to sell off its most viable business operations, Capmark Financial Group Inc. provides a painful example of the turmoil plaguing many large lenders to the commercial real estate industry. ...
Back to Basics to Stay Strong in Commercial Real Estate
Protecting assets, adapting to a new partnership climate, and engaging the government key to success...
Top 25 Brokerages
This ranking is based on responses to NREI's Top Brokerage survey, which was conducted via e-mail in February and March 2009...
Market Participants Assess Distressed Debt Opportunities
With all sorts of distressed debt investing opportunities now available after the excesses of the last few years, buyers and sellers are treading cautiously and looking for some kind of validation for pricing. ...
No Assurance Government Bailout Will Work, Expert Panel Concludes
LOS ANGELES — Congressional approval of the $700 billion financial-system “bailout” earlier this week has failed to calm the jitters of five prominent financial professionals, who said they remained vexed by both a paralyzed banking system and the possibility of prolonged recession during a Tuesday evening conference in Los Angeles. ...
FASB 157: Warning Light or Smoking Gun?
A government-mandated accounting rule that was intended to keep large institutions from overstating their holdings is emerging at the center of the recent credit meltdown....
Pension Funds Scale Back Outside Real Estate Advisors
In a world of daily cutbacks on everything but the price of oil, perhaps it was inevitable that the nation’s leading pension funds would find themselves in the same dilemma when it comes to their real estate investments....
Taking A Direct Hit
Buyers of commercial real estate properties with net leases in place have long considered these assets to be a safe haven because of their bond-like ability...
Guarded Optimism
Concerns about financing and a sluggish U.S. economy won’t deter commercial real estate investors. Despite a softening economy and turmoil in the capital markets, investors continue to have confidence in the U.S. commercial real estate industry...
Five Misconceptions of 1031 Exchanges
There are still some deep-rooted misconceptions about Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, even though tax-deferred exchanges are prevalent in the real estate community today...
