In today's troubled financial climate, it isn't easy to sell shopping centers. But some property owners—because conventional financing is scarce—have gotten creative and begun to finance sales themselves.
For example in April, Jim Glabman, owner...
A new report from Real Estate Econometrics reveals a continuing strain on the commercial mortgage market. Projections from the firm are that past due and non-accrual loan balances on commercial mortgages will more than double from the end of 2008...
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc. hired the Dallas office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) to assist the REIT with outstanding debt maturities for retail properties nationwide...
In early May, Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), the largest regional mall REIT in the country with 246 million square feet of space and a market capitalization of more than $13.7 billion, announced its second round of stock and unsecured debt off...
As the U.S.'s auto manufacturers continue to restructure and cut costs, car dealership closings are spiking and generating a glut of excess space that might have a prolonged negative impact on the commercial real estate market, investment sales...
The amount of outstanding multifamily and commercial real estate expanded in 2008, despite the credit crunch. Most of the expansion occurred in the commercial banking sector where outstanding debt grew from $1.40 trillion to $1.55 trillion from...
NPP Development LLC, an affiliate of the Kraft Group, appointed CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. to provide landlord representation and consulting services for Patriot Place, a 1.3-million-square-foot mixed-use complex in Foxborough, Mass...
One of the major plot points of last week's ICSC RECon in Las Vegas was the deluge of firms expressing interest in taking a piece of what many assume could be a multi-billion dollar business in coming months and years—managing distressed assets...
