A new survey finds that 41% of investors plan to buy select-service hotels over the next six months. But they might have trouble doing that as only 11% of respondents actually plan to sell during that period. Jones...
Privatization mania reached a crescendo in late November when Blackstone Group, the largest buyout fund in the world, offered to pay $20 billion for Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP), the nation's largest...
Reaping the rewards of rising rents and positive net absorption, office owners are in good spirits these days. Asking rents posted a 1.8% increase in the third quarter, but perhaps even more telling is that the gap...
CB Richard Ellis was already an 800-pound gorilla before it unveiled plans on Halloween to acquire Trammell Crow Co., a Dallas-based diversified real estate services firm widely recognized as having one of the...
Falling vacancies, rising rents and limited new supply have bolstered the apartment market in recent quarters. With one month left to go in 2006, many investors and market watchers believe that the coming year looks...
Fresh off accepting a $20 billion offer for his massive office company, REIT pioneer Sam Zell delivered some pointed remarks about the privatization wave yesterday morning. Aside from criticizing REIT naysayers — from...
Many real estate service providers assume that the primary reason why corporate users hire them is to save money. Who hasn’t been pitched the “low cost service provider” line? But a surprising new survey finds that...
Some of the hottest commercial properties today are hotels, which are teeming with guests and investor demand. But a recently announced multi-billion dollar privatization shows that branding is equally (if not more)...
