Matt Hudgins

The already high cost of commercial development will head higher in 2008 as a depressed dollar increases the price of fuel and materials, and wage inflation spirals upward, according to Ken Simonson, chief economist...

While sales at home improvement chains such as Home Depot are taking a beating in the wake of the housing slump, the retail market as a whole continues to exceed expectations simply by staying in the black, according...

The net loss of 4,000 jobs in August took the nation by surprise when the figures were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Sept. 7 and reinforced forecasts for the absorption of commercial space to slow this...

John B. Levy sees a familiar pattern emerging as the credit crunch unfolds, and it tells him that spiking mortgage rates may be just around the corner for commercial real estate. That's precisely what happened...

Commercial real estate investors may soon have a new option to protect against market losses, thanks to a series of price indexes published jointly by Moody’s Investors Service and Real Estate Analytics LLC (REAL)...

Retail sales are resisting a historic tendency to follow drops in home prices and sales, but whether consumers maintain spending levels hinges on which way the economy goes from here, according to one economist. “As...

Sometimes averages are a lousy performance indicator. That's particularly true of the national apartment sector, where a 5.8% vacancy rate and rental growth that is outpacing the rate of inflation suggest investors...

Rating agencies have been sounding alarm bells over aggressive underwriting in commercial mortgage-backed securities for more than a year, but until recently the worry has centered on the increased risk. Now, a new...