A few years ago tenant-in-common market was huge with the industry doubling size each year from 2002 to 2006. TICs enabled investors to pool money to purchase large commercial real estate assets. It was a way for small investors to get exposure to...
I'm in need of some desperate catching up. There was a bunch of big headlines about the commercial real estate crash. The latest to talk about the impending doom in commercial real estate were Wilbur Ross who sees a "huge crash in commercial real...
The U.S. retail sector might have a ways to go before it could be considered anything close to healthy, but it seems recovery is beginning to take hold, with some chains finally looking at expansion. The commercial real estate sector, however, is...
It's been a popular year for joint ventures. Macerich has been the most aggressive about forming joint ventures to shore up its balance sheet. The moves put it in a better position for a common offering, which it recently announced. ...
The most significant news for the sector was Capmark's bankruptcy filing. It was talked about over the weekend and became official this morning. Here is the Wall Street Journal's report. ...
As the commercial real estate industry continues to worry about all those debt maturities coming up in 2010 and 2011, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) is one step closer to issuing guidelines for banks dealing with troubled loans. It...
RREEF recently made the decision to stop managing its portfolio of properties directly. A few weeks back it announced the firms taking over management of its industrial and office portfolios. Today the retail piece was announced. Jones Lang...
Real Property Alpha has up a fascinating interview with Sperry Van Ness President & CEO Kevin Maggiacomo about commercial real estate and social networking. Maggiacomo has a blog and a Twitter feed. More interestingly, according to this post...
