LOS ANGELES — The whole notion of a California gubernatorial recall election "is stupid, categorically," Susan Hudson-Wilson, founder and CEO of Property & Portfolio Research Inc., told a crowd of 400 commercial...
Atlantic Station, the 138-acre mixed-use project under development at a former brownfield site in Midtown Atlanta, has undergone more twists and turns in its evolution than a riveting book. The latest chapter: IKEA...
No other major city in America has as big of an image problem as Detroit, which has become an enduring symbol of urban decay. Incredibly, between 1950 and 2000, the city's population fell from a peak of 1.8 million to...
Grubb & Ellis has been through the wringer. In October 2002, the Northbrook, Ill.-based real estate services firm was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange because a depressed stock price reduced its market...
Hundreds of bank branches are sprouting up in the nation's top 20 markets, leading to intense competition among financial institutions for prime street corners. That's driving demand and pushing up prices. But it's...
If you subscribe to Michael Pollack's theory, investors make their money when they buy commercial real estate, not when they sell it. To believe otherwise is to embrace the greater fool theory. “If you pay too much...
The economy is slowly recovering, but many department store chains continue to struggle. Against that backdrop, shopping center owners are pruning weak assets from their portfolios, a strategy The Rouse Co. (NYSE: RSE...
No, our cover story is not a case of irrational pessimism. Most commercial property sectors are floundering due to extremely weak real estate fundamentals, and the situation is not likely to improve over the next six...
Until recently, I was convinced that low-income housing tax credits and synthetic leases would be the most complex subjects that I'd ever have to cover for NREI. Then along came our cover story on biotechnology, a...
LAS VEGAS -- Retail real estate can claim bragging rights. It’s the only commercial real estate property sector to show positive absorption and rent growth over the past year, according to Marcus & Millichap...
