Retail REIT performance exceeded consensus analyst expectations in the first quarter, with companies across the board posting strong FFO and earnings growth. And with consumer spending holding up, observers are bullish for the rest of the year...
In a bid to take advantage of institutional capital’s interest in real estate investment Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to form a $1 billion joint venture with an unnamed pension fund advised by...
In early April, Gap Inc. released what, for it, qualified as the best news in a long time. The chain's same-store sales were up 2 percent during the first quarter 2007 — compared with a 12 percent decrease for the same period last year...
Rumors of a merger between Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CBL & Associates Properties Inc. and Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust appear to be just that...
In the mid-1980s, parachute pants and the Rubik's cube were a lot more popular than open-air centers. Just ask Mike Jaffe, who helped revive the dormant practice of building open-air centers with tenants more typical of a regional mall with...
Commercial real estate is about to become the latest sector subject to the world of derivatives, those mind-bending financial instruments that are calculated based on an underlying asset's value, but don't involve actually buying or...
