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Investor Timeout
Oct 1, 2007
After 17 straight rate increases, the Federal Reserve felt compelled to do something radical an about-face. To help jump-start the economy and assuage...
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Job Losses: Bitter Pill to Swallow
Oct 1, 2007
The net loss of 4,000 jobs in August took the nation by surprise when the figures were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Sept. 7 and reinforced...
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A CMBS and CDO Primer
Oct 1, 2007
The commercial mortgage market faces one of its toughest credit climates in more than a decade. The most complex corners of the securitized mortgage market...
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Weathering the Storm
Sep 1, 2007
So much for the forecast that shoddy subprime lending was an isolated event. What started as a spike in residential mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures...
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Headhunters Target C-Suite Talent
Aug 1, 2007
Like a hunter on safari, the talent scout tracks his prey, zeroing in on the best and brightest executives for companies that buy or build the nation's...
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Twister of Fate
Aug 1, 2007
In early 1999 and 2000, community leaders in the small town of Parsons, Kan., population 12,000, were busy outlining an economic development revitalization...
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FAREWELL CHEAP DEBT
Jul 1, 2007
At the halfway mark of 2007, leveraged investors are saying goodbye to the lowest commercial mortgage rates in 40 years and are coming to grips with increased capital costs....
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Express Delivery in Outsourcing
Jul 1, 2007
For at least 20 years, U.S. firms have outsourced real estate functions — from space planning to landscaping — as a way to concentrate on their core business. But now, many top firms are taking outsourcing further, using service partners to help them grow, and locate or manage new workplace facilities....
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Direct Line to the C-Suite
Mar 1, 2007
Shortly after Mark White became the chief financial officer of SAP Americas Inc. in 2002, LuAnn McHugh, the software company's vice president of real estate and facilities, approached her new boss with a restructuring plan that she envisioned would erase some inefficiencies in the corporate real estate portfolio....
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Wake-Up Call for Service Providers
Jun 1, 2004
When Procter & Gamble attempted to outsource all of its support functions to a single provider, few companies were up to the task. One seemed to fit the...
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IBM, Accenture to Move Jobs Offshore
Dec 15, 2003
IBM is planning to move roughly 4,730 programmers to India, China and other offshore locations. The company has notified its managers of the plan, which...
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Tenants' Power Play
Oct 1, 2003
These are trying times for office landlords. While several economic indicators suggest that a recovery is taking shape Gross Domestic Product growth is...
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Legal Aid for the Office Market
Aug 1, 2003
Law firms in Washington D.C. and New York City are gobbling up Class-A office space at bargain basement prices, bringing some much-needed demand to a...
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It's a Bidding War
Aug 1, 2003
Hundreds of bank branches are sprouting up in the nation's top 20 markets, leading to intense competition among financial institutions for prime street...
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ASSOCIATED PRESS LEAVES ROCK CENTER
Jul 1, 2003
After a two-year search for new Manhattan headquarters, The Associated Press has settled on less expensive space far west of Rockefeller Center, where...
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