Parke Chapman

Scratch August as the hottest month of the year. With $28.2 billion in closed deals last month, September 2005 now stands as the high-water mark for monthly investment sales volume of apartment, retail, industrial and...

Ground Zero’s retail prospects became clearer last Thursday after New York State officials announced that roughly 550,000 sq. ft. of retail space would be developed in and around the site. The news followed the...

The past five years have been good to publicly traded real estate firms. They've been even better to Vornado Realty Trust, the nation's fourth largest REIT with a $19.5 billion market capitalization...

Few commercial landlords will be spared by higher energy prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But owners of Class-B apartment properties could be most vulnerable, analysts say, since their tenants are least likely...

Housing displaced residents after Hurricane Katrina could temporarily increase apartment occupancy in greater Houston. That, in turn, could give a short-term earnings boost to REITs such as Camden Property Trust...

Could government-backed terror insurance soon be a thing of the past? In three months, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is set to expire unless Congress agrees to extend the backstop. Under TRIA, the government...

Faced with a hip-deep bidder pool, one of Manhattan’s oldest hotels has fetched $72 million. On Tuesday, the 174-room Algonquin Hotel was sold to real estate investment firm HEI Properties of Norwalk, Conn. for...

Hurricane Rita could take any number of dire trajectories over the next few days. Commercial real estate investors, for their part, are doing some forecasting of their own...