Though borrowers may frown on rising interest rates, they are a welcome sight for institutional real estate investors bent on gobbling up properties over the next 12 months, according to Morgan Stanley’s U.S. Real...
SAN DIEGO — The wind is no longer at their back in a rising interest-rate environment, but you'd never know it by the tenor of the speeches during last month's Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) convention at the...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is insistent on taking a measured approach to keeping inflation under control, which will likely result in the central bank raising interest rates by one-quarter point four more...
Twenty-years from now, when commercial real estate lenders reflect on today's financing climate, they will likely describe it as a golden era punctuated by a never-ending supply of cheap debt and high transaction...
A year ago in this column, I predicted that the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance act (SOX) would be a big story for the REIT world and beyond in 2004. The evidence suggests that I was correct. The spirit of SOX is...
On January 1, Bruce Mosler officially takes the helm as CEO of Cushman & Wakefield, the Manhattan-based real estate brokerage with 11,000 staff worldwide. Mosler, who has worked for the Manhattan-based brokerage...
Bradford Cohen has experienced what many Americans only dream about — a shot at becoming Donald Trump's second made-for-television apprentice. Unfortunately for Cohen, an attorney specializing in criminal defense and...
In 1950, when developer Raymond Watt was just beginning to make his mark as a homebuilder in Southern California, he spent about 40% of his time chasing capital providers. But the hunted have long since become the...
ATLANTA -- After jetting around the globe over the past year in search of best practices for commercial real estate, automation expert Jim Young has come to one inescapable conclusion: If U.S. malls are to remain...
LOS ANGELES – The outsourcing of office jobs to countries such as Pakistan and India will reduce office demand in the U.S. by more than 500 million sq. ft. between now and 2015,unless replacement jobs are created to...
