Judging the depth of commercial real estate's merger and acquisition activity can be tricky. Last year, a record $58.4 billion in mergers were completed, nearly double the $32.3 billion volume of activity in 1997...
Once you have tasted it, you don't like to give it up." The observation by Shekar Narasimhan, chief executive of WMF Group, could have been about any tempting delight - expensive wine or exotic food. But it wasn't...
About a 40-minute drive southeast of London, a huge retail development called Bluewater has been erected above the quarries and lakes of the area. The project stands out because of its size at 1.5 million sq. ft. and...
AMRESCO, a Dallas-based financial services company, had been living high on the hog since it was created in 1987. Revenues were doubling every year from $100 million in 1995 to about $500 million last year. Today, it...
From January to June of last year, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) was jiggy with commercial mortgage-backed securities, underwriting about $11 billion of the paper. But in late July, it put on the brakes...
U.S. markets heading toward a balanced 1999 Jacques Gordon can pinpoint to the day when the U.S. real estate market began to turn ugly. It was June 23, the second day of summer. On that day the Federal Reserve issued...
While it hasn't been a good year for real estate investment trusts in general, the retail REITs have been holding their own during a turbulent period for the stock market...
It's time to wave the checkered flag in the multifamily sector. It was the first property sector to see recovery and first to see a renewal of construction activity in the fast growing markets of the Sun Belt. Now, it...
Bear, Stearns' approach to mortgage securitization can easily be summed up in an explanatory sentence used by one of its managing directors: "It tends not to be the first one in the pool, but does end up staying in...
