Brokerage News
Houston Office Market Takes Hit from Ike
America’s fourth-largest city was on a roll. That is until Ike came to town....
Q&A with Lisa Konieczka: Chicago Can Handle Added Office Supply, but Will New Buildings Get Financed?
A visitor driving into downtown Chicago these days could be forgiven for thinking that the city’s official bird has become the building crane....
Broker Roundups
Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle has shuffled its global management deck and announced staff cuts in its England-based operation. ...
NAR Anticipates Brokerage Market Slowdown
An index maintained by the National Association of Realtors points to a softening in commercial real estate markets in the coming months. ...
Brokerage Articles
Revolving Door at Grubb & Ellis
When Scott Peters announced his resignation as CEO at Grubb & Ellis Co. in July, the sudden departure was the latest chapter in a long saga of management...
Derivatives Debut in Commercial Real Estate
With capitalization rates flattening in most markets, commercial real estate owners face the real possibility that their property values may drop for...
Fed Rate Cut May Accelerate Rising Construction Costs
The already high cost of commercial development will head higher in 2008 as a depressed dollar increases the price of fuel and materials...
Job Losses: Bitter Pill to Swallow
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...
A CMBS and CDO Primer
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...
Cost of Capital Proves Volatile for Borrowers
Gary E. Mozer is principal and chief executive of George Smith Partners, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment and mortgage banking shop. Last year,...
Investor Timeout
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...
Weathering the Storm
So much for the forecast that shoddy subprime lending was an isolated event. What started as a spike in residential mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures...
Headhunters Target C-Suite Talent
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...
Twister of Fate
In early 1999 and 2000, community leaders in the small town of Parsons, Kan., population 12,000, were busy outlining an economic development revitalization...
