Jeffrey Packard, an assistant vice president with life insurance company John Hancock, which does about $2 billion in commercial mortgage lending, has been waiting for this moment for four years. The rise of CMBS...
When you walk into the Kroger store at Dublin Plaza in Dublin, Ohio, you don't find your typical staid, antiseptic supermarket. There's no harsh fluorescent lighting, sterile white tile or plain metal shelving...
In March, Developers Diversified Realty Corp. put a portfolio of 63 assets up for sale. In recent years, such a collection of assets would have been snatched up in no time at prevailing market rates as investors'...
Microsoft Corp. has signed a lease for all the class A office space available at the Bravern, a 6-million-square-foot, mixed-use project in Bellevue, Wash. The software behemoth will occupy 740,000 square feet in two...
Commercial real estate is about to become the latest sector subject to the world of derivatives, those mind-bending financial instruments that are calculated based on an underlying asset's value, but don't...
In the mid-1980s, parachute pants and the Rubik's cube were a lot more popular than open-air centers. Just ask Mike Jaffe, who helped revive the dormant practice of building open-air centers with tenants more...
Rumors of a merger between Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CBL & Associates Properties Inc. and Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust appear to be just that...
In early April, Gap Inc. released what, for it, qualified as the best news in a long time. The chain's same-store sales were up 2 percent during the first quarter 2007 — compared with a 12 percent decrease...
