The key to attracting more investors to the seniors housing industry is to become as transparent as the traditional commercial real estate asset classes and to develop a more compelling storyline to market the product...
CHICAGO — A lack of financial transparency could prevent the seniors housing market from reaching its full potential as a real estate asset class, warns economist Dr. Peter Linneman. The veteran professor at the...
If future historians were to write a book about the state of commercial real estate in this election year of 2008, a fitting title might be, “The Great Time of Uncertainty and Anxiety.” It's hard to recall a period...
With so much bad economic news dampening lodging demand, it's easy to understand why a hotel owner, operator or lender might want to go straight to his room, hop in bed, and pull the covers over his head. Their...
The dramatic transformation of Times Square from a seedy district infamous for porn shops and massage parlors into a thriving retail and entertainment destination where tourists crowd the streets and look skyward is...
Once the place for the world’s great investors to park their money, the United States is no longer the kingpin for generating business opportunities and has lost respect around the globe, says famed real estate...
NEW YORK — As gross domestic product goes, so goes the U.S. hotel industry. The two are inextricably linked. Just ask J. Willard Marriott Jr., chairman and CEO of Marriott International Inc., who in his illustrious...
Once the darling of the real estate investment community, the shopping center industry is feeling the heat due to a rash of store closures, retail bankruptcies and scaled-back expansion plans by merchants. Perhaps it...
LAS VEGAS — The velocity of U.S. retail property sales across the industry plunged 40% in the first quarter of 2008 on a year-over-year basis, according to brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap, reflecting a major...
LAS VEGAS — A self-described independent populist, CNN business anchor Lou Dobbs has a strong message for the top three U.S. presidential candidates: Stop wallowing in partisan prattle and address major public policy...
