The San Francisco Chronicle has a story doing a good job summing up the situation for the retail real estate sector. There's nothing particularly new in the story. The nice touch is a chart at the bottom aggregating the most pessimistic...

Grubb & Ellis president David Arena took the case for the commercial real estate bailout to the airwaves and appeared on Fox Business to discuss the particulars. The industry doesn't seem to want to use the word bailout. That makes sense. It's...

General Growth Properties Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns more than 200 shopping malls in the U.S., signed forbearance agreements temporarily protecting the company against defaults. The senior credit lenders agreed...

This from the Boston Herald--analyst Burt Flickinger says that up to 3,000 retail properties could close in March and April. That sounds like a massive, massive number. We haven't heard anyone else make that kind of projection. We haven't heard...