NEW YORK — Ask 10 commercial real estate experts to define exactly what constitutes a high-net-worth investor, and chances are you’ll come up with several different answers. But query these professionals on the finer...
Chicago real estate executive Paul Beitler contends many of the security measures implemented in high-rise office buildings nationwide in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center are...
Grim. There's no other way to describe those words voiced by Curtis Massey, president and CEO of Massey Enterprises Inc., whose expertise is helping commercial real estate owners nationwide develop disaster plans for...
For commercial mortgage bankers, the first half of 2002 might best be described as two steps forward, one step back. The momentum of record-low interest rates for borrowers, coupled with an investor flight to real...
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE OF US WHO DON'T WORK IN SIGNATURE, high-rise office buildings to fully comprehend the feelings of anxiety and vulnerability felt by tenants who do, or the hassles they endure on a daily basis...
WHAT KEEPS SENIOR OPERATING OFFICERS of the nation's largest office REIT awake at night? In a word — occupancy. “If you look at our industry, there is some analogy to filling hotel rooms and airline seats,” explains...
AS IF ON CUE, the e-mail popped onto my computer screen just as I was wrapping up my story on the ailing office market for the June issue. The subject line: “BellSouth to eliminate 4,000 to 5,000 jobs.” The note was...
When will the office market see the end of the double-digit — and still rising — vacancy rates and declining rents? The answer is another question: When will companies start adding jobs instead of shedding them...
BY THE TIME PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS RELEASED a report in early 2001 declaring that nearly 20% of America's regional malls were on the endangered list, mall owners and investors were already painfully familiar with the...
