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Bargain Hunter
May 01, 2000
Over the past five years, Klaff Realty LP has become one of the best bargain shoppers in the world of retail. The Chicago-based firm is the corporate embodiment of that unflagging individual shopper who searches for...
COMPETITION REMAINS STIFF in net-lease arena
Dec 01, 1999
As Corporate America continues to focus on core strategies, the trend line to sell off real estate holdings, then lease back the space as it is needed, accelerates. This has attracted a host of new players on all...
{internet services and providers}
Oct 31, 1999
Back in May, LoopNet Inc., the largest commercial real estate listing service on the Internet, unveiled a new product called LoopLender - a loan-origination service for the commercial real estate market. The idea was...
{telecommunications}
Oct 31, 1999
One of the unexpected results of the 1996 deregulation of the telecommunications industry was the creation of a new breed of technology service firms intent on upgrading 20th Century commercial real estate with 21st...
REITs in a changing world
Oct 31, 1999
We admit we are starting to be boring," notes the beginning paragraph in a Salomon Smith Barney research report on the subject of real estate investment trusts (REITs)...
RATING AGENCIES WAGING war over market pie
Oct 01, 1999
The commercial mortgage-backed securities rating process is not particularly hard to understand: Investment bankers put together the information on their offerings and send it to all four agencies. A preliminary...
OLD ENEMIES FIND BENEFITS IN coming together
Oct 01, 1999
In August, Charlotte, N.C.-based First Union Capital Markets Corp. and New York's Chase Manhattan Corp. joined together in a successful $1.4 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) transaction. The...
DISCIPLINE, PERSEVERANCE. The Rallying Cry of the REITs.
Sep 01, 1999
For most of the 1990s, real estate investment trusts ruled. In the realm of land and buildings, REITs entranced Wall Street, cranked up immense capital-raising mechanisms, bought wildly and aggregated portfolios with...
Deal cogs grind slowly
Sep 01, 1999
The deal is won or lost after it's done." The observation, pithy and direct to the point, evolved from William Ferguson's experience on the front lines. The co-chairman of Chicago-based FPL Advisory Group does a lot...
It's raining money, for now
Aug 01, 1999
As fall 1998 approached, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. was sitting on a pool of loans it intended to securitize. Unfortunately for the big life insurer, as well as everyone else in the commercial mortgage...
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