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Life After the Refi Boom
Aug 01, 2003
When the residential refinancing wave finally subsides — which some analysts anticipate will occur before the end of the year — title companies will be ready. The nation's biggest title providers are expanding their...
Holding On Until Recovery Comes
Jul 01, 2003
The scenario is all too familiar: For the third straight year the hotel industry is faced with lackluster demand and declining revenues. As the sector waits anxiously for business and leisure travel to bounce back...
Outsourcing: Fewer Deals for Bigger Players
Apr 01, 2003
As corporate space users reduce the number of outsourcing firms they use, the competition has intensified among service providers vying for huge global contracts worth millions of dollars. In this high-stakes game...
Aggressive Growth Strategy
Mar 01, 2003
Gregory Maloney took over the reins as president of the Jones Lang LaSalle retail group March 1, succeeding Robert F. Welanetz, who will remain with the company as a project consultant. Maloney, formerly executive...
Desperate Times, Drastic Measures
Mar 01, 2003
Equity Office Properties has a simple solution to cope with its earnings slump — cut overhead to the bone and lavish new rewards on brokers who fill up those empty offices...
Hotels: Still Too Much Room at the Inn
Dec 01, 2002
No other corner of the commercial real estate industry has been victim to as many converging trends as the hotel sector: Corporations are cutting back on business trips, families are still avoiding airline travel and...
Upscale Hotel Brands Headed for Smaller Towns
Nov 01, 2002
Can it be that the future of the Westin and Sheraton brands is in places like Normal, Ill.? It might sound unlikely, but Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (NYSE:HOT) considers markets like Normal — population 45...
Suburbia is the next frontier for Sheraton and Westin
Oct 08, 2002
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has unveiled a strategy to expand its upscale Westin and Sheraton brands into secondary and tertiary markets with newly designed prototypes. The hotels will be smaller than...
Seller Beware
Sep 01, 2002
THE BIGGEST HOTEL SALE so far this year — Host Marriott Corp.'s $214 million purchase of the Boston Marriott Copley Place in June — shows how the negotiating advantage can shift to a buyer when an unsteady market is...
Making Real Estate Finance More Professional
Aug 01, 2002
As the list of financial meltdowns in Corporate America continues to grow, Thomas Wratten thinks the timing is perfect for the commercial real estate industry's first-ever certification program for debt and equity...
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