Parke Chapman

One week after Hurricane Frances tore through Florida, Fitch Ratings is closely monitoring any uptick in Florida CMBS delinquencies. Florida is the fourth-largest contributor of CMBS collateral in the nation...

Manhattan’s Battery Park City Authority has given Goldman Sachs the green light to build a 2 million sq. ft. office tower in lower Manhattan. The investment bank will pay a lump sum of $161 million to the BPCA by June...

Jones Lang LaSalle's new CEO brings 26 years of corporate experience to the global brokerage giant — all of it acquired outside the real estate industry. Colin Dyer, 51, officially becomes CEO this month, working...

Now that the commercial real estate market is on the mend, will tenants flock to the convenience of flexible office space? Regus Group is betting they will. The London-based firm — which already was the world's...

Investment sales activity is occurring at a frenzied pace. Nearly $70 billion worth of Class-A office buildings were sold during the first half of 2004 — a 60% increase in sales volume over the same period last year...

Atlanta-based apartment owner and developer Post Properties has agreed to pay founder and former director John Williams $400,000 per year through May 2013 as part of his dispute settlement with the firm. Williams’...

Fears of a terrorist attack leading up to the November presidential election may be fueling added demand for property terrorism insurance. Marsh, a major risk and insurance services firm, recently found that the take...

Low interest rates in conjunction with a less-than-stellar equity market are still driving private investor capital into the commercial real estate market, says Timothy Welch, a top investment sales broker from...