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National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Chapman & Valley |
The Sublease Overhang: A 124 Million Sq. Ft. Headache When will vacancy rates return to normal and asking rents stop falling? The answer very much depends on how quickly the office market can clear out a whopping 124 million sq. ft. of sublease space -- about 25% of the total available space nationwide. |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Jessica Miller |
Office Fundamentals Continue to Crumble Climbing vacancies and a sluggish leasing market continue to dog the national office market. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Jessica Miller |
Industrial: In Search of Stability For real estate investors seeking stability, warehouse space looks like a safe bet. The stalwart of the industrial sector, warehouse space is viewed as a smart defensive play because of its stable returns and short development timeline. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Parke Chapman |
A Supply Glut In the Office Sector Over the past two years, as office markets softened, industry pundits predicted that things would not get as bad as they did in the last recession because this time the market was not overbuilt. It looks like they were wrong. |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Joe Gose |
The Office Investment Gamble Several office markets battered by the tech wreck that jolted Wall Street and led to a recession four years ago are still plagued by double-digit vacancies. But that hasn't fazed investors, who are generally paying more for properties today than they were in 2001 when the buildings were filled with tenants. |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2011 Michele Lerner |
Office Investment Magnet Experts believe Washington, D.C.'s real estate fundamentals are in place to keep the local office market healthy for the remainder of 2011. |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2003 Chapman & Valley |
Have We Hit Bottom? If, indeed, the U.S. is in the early stages of a long anticipated rebound, there were no signs of it in the commercial real estate industry in the first half. The most obvious trends were rising vacancies, falling rents and mounting loan delinquencies. |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Matt Valley Editor |
New office supply is like rubbing salt into the wound Many real estate brokers, developers, and lenders say this is a demand-driven recession, that the industry didn't overbuild this time. The reality is it's also a supply problem in two of the historically biggest job-growth markets, Atlanta and Dallas. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2010 Beth Mattson-Teig |
Opening Moves Today's office leasing game has a lot of action but no real progress. |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2004 Walter Woods |
When Will Atlanta Rise Again? While Atlanta's fundamentals continue to lag, the city is adding more structures to its famous skyline. Some new inventory has already come on line in early 2004, including the first of many possible towers at the Atlantic Station. |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Margy Sweeney |
Chicago's `Long, Flat Bottom' Downtown Chicago continues to bustle with construction activity. This is a good sign and also a scary one. |
National Real Estate Investor November 25, 2002 Parke Chapman |
Wells buys $345 million D.C. office complex Wells Real Estate Investment Trust has acquired a pair of Class-A, office buildings in the heart of Washington, D.C. |
National Real Estate Investor October 9, 2002 Tony Wilbert |
Atlanta stalls as job growth dwindles If commercial real estate is to Atlanta what cars are to Detroit, then the engine is kaput, and AAA won't arrive for more than a year. |
National Real Estate Investor May 2, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Wells Continues Acquisition Spree Wells Real Estate Investment Trust has been busy this week. The unlisted office and industrial REIT spent over $245 million to buy two office buildings, including a 410,000 sq. ft. New Jersey office building and a 929,694 sq. ft. Minneapolis property. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2004 Parke Chapman |
Forecast 2005: Will Job Growth Finally Meet Expectations This Year? Economists and commercial real estate experts largely agree that U.S. job growth year-to-date can best be described as disappointing. |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Walsh & Brickley |
Philadelphia Story: Betting on a Better Downtown A survey of the philadelphia property market: hotels, multifamily, retail, office, and projects under construction. |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Parke Chapman |
Drowning in Data Legions of analysts and data gatherers now provide a steady flow of information about occupancies, asking rents, sales per square foot, and so on for all markets and classes of commercial real estate. If this is transparency, it is of a highly murky vintage. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2006 Beth Mattson-Teig |
Twin Cities Harbor Hidden Office Buys On the surface, the Minneapolis-St. Paul office market appears to be plodding along at a steady, yet unremarkable clip. But a closer look reveals a market that is bubbling with activity. |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Matt Gove |
Wells Makes Its Move Wells Real Estate Funds has spent most of its 18-year history flying under the radar --- buying nondescript, single-tenant suburban office buildings. Now, the Atlanta-based privately held company is making its move with acquisitions totaling more than $1.2 billion for 2002. |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2004 Morris Newman |
Cashing In on L.A.'s Hot Investment Climate After a decade with very little new construction, the Los Angeles office market is noticeably tighter. |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Garden Variety Slump The northern New Jersey real estate market is limping through the murkiest economy in a decade. Occupancy rates across all property classes waned in 2002. Retrenching businesses dumped space on to a swelling sublease market, and prices for Class-A office space have softened. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Chapman & Valley |
Rational Exuberance? Late last year, as conditions in the office sector declined and price tags for buildings continued to rise, industry pundits warned of a possible investment bubble. Still, it looks like the bubble remains more of a threat than a present danger. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Matt Valley |
Forecast 2003 As 2002 limps across the finish line, the men and women who run the commercial real estate industry are looking to the Middle East for hints of what 2003 will bring. Industry execs agree that until the Iraq conflict is resolved the economic recovery won't gain any substantial momentum. |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2003 |
2003 Real Estate Investment Survey Exclusive research shows resilient asset class remains hot despite weak fundamentals. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2006 Laura Ellis |
The Nissan Effect Nashville's commercial real estate market is riding high on the automaker's announcement that it will relocate its North American headquarters from Gardena, California, to the Country Music Capital by the end of 2007. |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Gove & Valley |
REITs May Be Hitting A Wall Although it's too early to call a solid bottom to the stock market, real estate experts and analysts generally agree that in the near term REIT shares are going to be fighting headwinds due to deteriorating real estate fundamentals and waning investor enthusiasm. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2005 Edward J. Finn |
Steady Gains Despite economic uncertainty, the commercial real estate market continues its upward climb. |
National Real Estate Investor April 9, 2003 |
Los Angeles office market stabilizing? For the first time in months, the office vacancy rate for Los Angeles County has shown improvement, according to first-quarter statistics from Cushman & Wakefield. |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Nicholas Yulico |
Betting on a Rebound A surge in San Francisco leasing activity has propelled investors to pay record prices for trophy buildings in recent months. Skeptics wonder whether buyers are wise to bet on a recovery that may still be a ways off. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
Tenuous Office Recovery Boston's metropolitan market continues to lag the national office recovery -- and observers question if the market's near-term leasing momentum is sustainable. They cite two stubborn trends: an active mergers and acquisitions market, and a soft local economy. |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2006 Joe Gose |
Dispositions Dwindle REITs are less likely to be the net sellers they've been during the last few years when high demand for commercial real estate allowed office landlords to dump non-core assets or buildings in unfavorable markets. |
National Real Estate Investor July 9, 2003 Parke Chapman |
C&W: Manhattan Office Vacancy Ebbed In June Cushman & Wakefield reports on current conditions and outlook for the year in the Manhattan office market. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Carol Tice |
Listless in Seattle In March, state economists warned that Seattle won't see any sign of recovery before late 2004. But some developers are looking beyond the current miasma and are planning major new projects that they hope will open to a brighter scene in two years. |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2004 Parke Chapman |
Midtown Manhattan: A Pillar of Strength The real estate market in Manhattan is finally emerging from a three-year slump. Office leasing is on the rise, hotel vacancy rates are tightening and luxury retailers are flocking to Fifth Avenue's midtown shopping corridor. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Mike Fickes |
Pension Funds Plan to Plow $14B into Real Estate in 2003 Occupancy may be down and sale prices high in many property types, but pension funds have big plans for buying commercial real estate in 2003. |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Morris Newman |
San Francisco's Bipolar Office Market Riding a High Investors in the seemingly bipolar San Francisco office market appear ready to bounce back. After three years of slow recovery, downtown San Francisco is ready to relegate the tech fiasco to the past. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2004 Stan Luxenberg |
Recovery Remains in Infancy Stage With employment growing, office markets are slowly improving around the country. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2005 Parke Chapman |
Finally, An Uptick in Office Rents Average rents nationally rose by 0.7% to hit $20.25 per sq. ft., up from $20.11 per sq. ft. at the end of 2004. In reality, scores of major office markets are still limping, and some won't make a full recovery for several years to come. |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Christine Perez |
Pocket of Prosperity When Craig Hall began developing his first office building in Hall Office Park five years ago, there wasn't even a road that led to his 142-acre site in Frisco, a bedroom community about 25 miles north of Dallas -- now one of America's fastest-growing cities. |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2005 Matt Valley |
Office Absorption Rises, But Concerns Persist While the office market has dug itself out of a deep hole, it isn't out of the woods just yet. Investors willing to gamble and buy vacancy in anticipation of a swift recovery are advised to proceed with caution. |
National Real Estate Investor May 27, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Chicago's CBD Vacancies Decline, But Troubles Persist Chicago's CBD office vacancy declined by almost half a percentage point during the first quarter, according to a report from CB Richard Ellis. Within the next few months, several large tenants will vacate substantial chunks of space. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2005 H. Lee Murphy |
Industrial Building Binge Developers may be taking on significant risk in some of their spec investments, and in some cases they are plainly getting out in front of actual demand for new space. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Anthony Downs |
Don't Expect a Turnaround In the Property Markets in 2003 2002 was by no means a true recession year. Nevertheless, most Americans -- and many commercial real estate professionals -- view the economy in a negative light. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Margy Sweeney |
Think Big -- in Small Towns In the past, national investors feared that it would be difficult to fill space in a secondary market if a tenant defaulted. Now there is a steady stream of major customers such as IKEA that want to locate in secondary markets, and major developers are lining up to accommodate them. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Parke Chapman |
The Changing Brokerage Paradigm These are edgy times for commercial real estate brokerages. Office leasing volume is flat-lining, top brokers are switching firms and mergers are creating a new breed of mega-brokerages. |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2005 Matt Hudgins |
Fear of Commitment In an era of short production cycles and rapidly changing business models, the new mantra in corporate real estate is flexibility, which is often equal to, if not more important than, achieving the lowest occupancy cost. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Sibley Fleming |
Tearing Up Peachtree Tearing up Peachtree Street, which runs through downtown Atlanta and the office markets of Midtown and Buckhead, is another way of saying there's a lot of construction going on. |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Steve Ginsberg |
From Boom to Bust Since the 1850s gold rush, San Francisco's development has been a series of booms and busts. What's new about the latest bust is the culprit. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Ezra Fieser |
The Nation's Commercial Real Estate Capital? Washington, D.C., just might be the only commercial real estate market in the U.S. with bragging rights. |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2004 Hortense Leon |
Miami Makeover Attracts Investors Miami's newly minted reputation for integrity and efficiency in city government sparks an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion of new construction, ranging from condos to an office tower, in and near the city's downtown area. |