A 172% increase in delinquent loans issued in 2006, plus a weak retail property sector in the second quarter, contributed to the first delinquency increase in commercial mortgage-backed securities since 2003...
A rivalry is brewing over which city will dominate the growing activity of REITs in Asia. The stakes are high as both Singapore and Hong Kong attempt to become the preferred means of REIT investment in the region and...
Investors are clamoring for commercial real estate in markets that bounced hardest in the high-tech era of the 1990s into 2000. What's different this time is that cities like Austin and Portland are developing diverse...
Hotel development is blazing hot in Las Vegas, where a $30 billion heat wave of construction is slated to add nearly 40,000 guest rooms in the next three years. At year-end 2006, the inventory of hotel rooms in the...
At 750,000 sq. ft. and 130 stores, the Prime Outlets San Marcos is a far cry from the factory outlet centers that hawked irregular goods from remote roadsides two decades ago. Just a 30-minute drive from both San...
The nation’s multifamily vacancy rate shot up in the second quarter to an estimated 5.1%, 110 basis points higher than a year ago, according to preliminary survey results published this month by Torto Wheaton Research...
The construction cranes appearing up and down The Las Vegas Strip aren’t a desert mirage, although temperatures did hit 116 degrees there this month. Hotel development is blazing hot in Sin City, and a heat wave of...
China is taking new steps to curb foreign investment in commercial and residential real estate and to quell fears that offshore investors are driving up prices to unacceptable levels. Announced June 11, the new rules...
At the halfway mark of 2007, leveraged investors are saying goodbye to the lowest commercial mortgage rates in 40 years and are coming to grips with increased capital costs. Fixed mortgage rates rose an average of 50...
Investors are clamoring for commercial real estate in markets that bounced hardest in the high-tech-boom-and-bust earlier this decade. This time around, however, cities like Austin, Texas and Portland, Ore. are...
