Property Management News
Creative Belt-Tightening Measures
What a difference a year makes. The blistering pace of investment sales activity that had property management assignments flipping like hotcakes during...
Multiple Hat Syndrome
As the U.S. economy erodes and leasing and investment sales stall, commercial real estate brokerages are aggressively growing their global footprint while...
Property Management Articles
Survival of the Fittest
For years, economists warned that the annual rise in consumer spending wasn't a permanent condition, but those concerns largely fell on deaf ears. Retailers...
Battle Against Southeast Drought Heats Up
While three governors wrangle over water amid the Southeast's worst drought in decades, commercial real estate firms are adopting measures more familiar...
Dialing Back on Utility Costs
When Greystar Real Estate Partners acquired three apartment properties last year in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., the new owner installed submeters in each unit...
Tenants Go for the Green
After years of fits and starts, office building owners are finally getting the green message. Just ask Al Skodowski, vice president and director of engineering...
JLL buys Garden State brokerage
Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) has agreed to buy Klatskin Associates and Klatskin Associates Management Company, Inc....
GE Real Estate Loans $248 Million to Brookfield
An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management will use a $248 million mortgage from GE Strategic Capital Group to acquire a 3.5 million sq. ft. office portfolio ...
New Orleans Blues
Insurance costs are a painful burden for HRI Properties, a New Orleans-based firm that owns and manages apartments. Before Hurricane Katrina hit in August...
Greater Job Expectations Yield Higher Compensation
Today's commercial property manager is a modern-day jack-of-all-trades. In addition to overseeing building maintenance and rent collection, managers are...
Live from MBA/CREF 2004: Mold A Growing Concern for Lenders
ORLANDO — The financial fallout from mold could very well make asbestos look like "a day at the beach" for commercial real estate financiers and owners,...
Do I Hear a Bid?
Last summer, real estate owner Roger Kellogg needed to sell several office buildings quickly. The Florida-based investor had located a replacement property...
