Microsoft’s Virtual Earth is battling toe-to-toe with Google Earth for commercial real estate customers in the aerial view and mapping technology arena.
Relative newcomer Virtual Earth has already mapped three-dimen...
For decades, Seattle's South Lake Union section was known for the remnants of its industrial past — an old sawmill, an early Boeing airplane plant, a Ford Model-T factory, and shipping wharfs. It was also known for...
Across the spectrum of commercial real estate, women are tasting power as chief executives, chief financial officers, company presidents and brokers as never before. And their ability to create value for their...
When Jodi Pulice, founder and president of New York-based JRT Realty Group, handled the $369 million sale of the iconic Seagram Building on Park Avenue in Manhattan, she literally moved her offices into the building...
When a board member of the Louisville, Ky.-based health care REIT Ventas phoned Debra Cafaro nearly 10 years ago and asked for her help, Ventas was essentially on life support: Its main tenant, Vencor, faced...
President Bush was expected to sign into law by early August a controversial bill to rescue government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill would allow the Treasury Department to extend unlimited...
A day after President Bush called on Congress to prop up government-sponsored mortgage pillars Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, behind the scenes the multifamily industry is quietly voicing concern about the agencies’...
As unsold homes and apartments invade the rental market, presenting fierce competition for the nation's 18 million units of traditional apartment stock, the industry is weathering the onslaught with the help of...
On a small barrier island in the Crooked River Estuary off Georgia's coast, developer Chip Drury is toiling on a $4 billion mixed-use project that has already absorbed more than five years of his life before the first...
With commercial property sales hurtling into an abyss, mortgage bankers and direct lenders are taking bold steps to find new revenue streams. The strategies range from adding loan-servicing portfolios to hiring entire...
