Parke Chapman

Atlanta and Dallas have led the nation in population growth since 2000, but these Sunbelt metros continue to show stubbornly high office vacancy rates. The two cities added more residents than any other metro area in...

Stacey Berger: Weak underwriting standards cloud booming CMBS market ...

Did the $36 billion sale of Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP) signal the top of history’s most buoyant commercial real estate market? Not to EOP chairman and founder Sam Zell, who asserts that the dizzying sums...

Investor demand for hotel portfolios spiked over the past six days as roughly $5.6 billion in global M&A deals came to market. So it goes in the sweltering realm of hotel sales. What’s perhaps more significant...

What U.S. city has outpaced the nation in population and labor growth since 2000, but still finds its sprawling office market idling in the doldrums? The answer is Atlanta, the largest city in the Southeast, where...

Emboldened by deep-pocketed finance and legal firms bent on expansion plans, Manhattan landlords pushed office rents into the stratosphere during the first quarter. It was tough to ignore this conclusion earlier today...

Global hotel giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts may have moved one step closer to going private. Lodging analysts are buzzing about this prospect after the sudden departure of Starwood CEO Steve Heyer earlier this...