While mounting pressures may produce cracks in the economic recovery in 2006, the nation is on track to close out 2005 on a resilient note. Real GDP growth in the third quarter was higher than expected at an...
A week after suicide bombers killed 57 people at U.S.-branded hotels in Amman, Jordan on Nov. 9, leaders in both the House and Senate introduced legislation to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002. Set to...
Beth Burnham Mace spends a little more time in her Boston office these days, thanks to a new research tool that reduces her need for site visits to assess underwriting opportunities in seniors housing...
Texas' capital city is poised to convert a 19th century residential neighborhood into a 30-acre addition to its Central Business District, and two high-rise projects are leading the way...
REITs have enjoyed a blissful five years of rising share prices that insulated them from the rapid fluctuations common to other securities. During that stretch, REITs outperformed every major index with the exception...
With bidding wars for properties and grass-roots resistance to new construction growing in many communities, real estate companies are asking attorneys not only for standard legal guidance, but also for help in a few...
The stakes keep rising for buyers hunting office properties in a crowded commercial real estate market. An excess of capital and persistently low long-term interest rates have given sellers the upper hand. Despite...
All year, the 10-year Treasury bond has defied expectations. Even as the Federal Reserve has systematically boosted the Fed funds rate from a recession-stomping 1% to 3% in just 12 months, the benchmark long-term bond...
When Matrix Capital Partners purchased two Cincinnati apartment complexes in 1998, the company locked in mortgages at modest interest rates of 7% and 8% for 10 years via securitized deals. But that was before the 10...
