Denise Kalette

The national mark-to-market accounting standard requiring assets to be priced at current market value, a flash point for many commercial real estate investors, is moving up the list on Washington's agenda for reform...

In Houston, as the nation struggles with job cuts and scarce credit, two sleek office buildings are galloping skyward, neck and neck, racing toward completion in a city that so far has managed to outrun the recession...

If there’s one thing Albert Behler knows, it’s how to make money. Behler is president and CEO of New York-based Paramount Group, a German-owned firm that is the largest privately owned real estate acquisition and...

The recession hasn’t deterred Elif Bali, senior vice president of development for New York-based Loews Hotels. She’s pressing ahead with a big agenda. Loews is currently building a 414-room hotel in Midtown Atlanta...

The vice president of Smith Travel Research took the Obama administration to task at a hotel investment conference on Monday, saying that criticism of finance industry groups for holding meetings at upscale hotels and...

The former president of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association (CMSA) told a congressional subcommittee today that the government’s mark-to-market rules are imposing hardship on the $3.4 trillion commercial...

A congressional subcommittee has scheduled a hearing Thursday on the federal government’s mark-to-market accounting rule, which has become a flashpoint for many commercial real estate investors. Critics say the rule...