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National Real Estate Investor September 23, 2003 Parke Chapman	Office REIT Stung By Competitive Manhattan Market A decision last week by law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to lease 450,000 sq. ft. at One World Financial Center was terrific news for lower Manhattan and WFC landlord Brookfield Properties, but quite the opposite for Boston Properties.
National Real Estate Investor January 5, 2004 Parke Chapman	Law Firm Relocates from Midtown to Downtown Manhattan Midtown Manhattan law firm Morgan & Finnegan has signed a 100,000 sq. ft. lease at 3 World Financial Center. The lease gives the firm two full floors within 3 WFC, which is located directly across from Ground Zero.
National Real Estate Investor October 30, 2002 Parke Chapman	Fifth Avenue office tower sells for $611 per sq. ft. Chicago-based Walton Street Capital bought the Midtown Manhattan office building.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Ground Zero Waiting Game Above-market asking rents and political bickering over Ground Zero's future are foiling developer Larry Silverstein in his quest to fill the $700 million 7 World Trade Center building. As of late December, just 40,000 of the total 1.7 million sq. ft. was leased.
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 November 5, 2002 Parke Chapman	Report: Manhattan office sales volume up 14% Manhattan's office sales market is booming despite a sluggish leasing climate that has kept vacancy high.
National Real Estate Investor December 5, 2003	11 Madison Avenue Sells for $675M An art deco office building in Manhattan's Midtown South district has traded for $675 million, or roughly $310 per sq. ft. InvestorTamir Sapir of ZAR Realty, who also owns 260 Madison, 261 Madison and 2 Broadway, purchased 11 Madison Avenue from Met Life.
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 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 December 17, 2002 Parke Chapman	Midtown Manhattan office building could fetch $1 billion Another Class-A office building in Midtown Manhattan is on the market. Located on 52nd Street in the heart of Midtown near Rockefeller Center, 666 Fifth Ave. could command bids as high as $1 billion, or more than $600 per sq. ft.
National Real Estate Investor August 7, 2003 Parke Chapman	Manhattan Office Tower Sells For Nearly $300M Vornado Realty Trust has sold 2 Park Avenue, a 965,000 sq. ft. office building in midtown Manhattan, for $292 million. The buyer was German real estate investment firm SEB Immobilien-Investment GMBH.
National Real Estate Investor April 16, 2003 Parke Chapman	New leases chip away at lower Manhattan's vacancies More than 600,000 sq. ft. of office space in lower Manhattan was leased this week, pushing the downtown market's vacancy rate below 13% for the first time in a year. Two large leasing deals were responsible for the positive trend.
National Real Estate Investor December 3, 2002 Parke Chapman	Boston Properties to sell Midtown building Global Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy the 29-story, Class-A office building. The sale will allow the Boston-based REIT to pare down its debt.
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 October 16, 2002 Parke Chapman	MetLife markets $2 billion office portfolio Insurer Metropolitan Life is selling nearly $2 billion worth of its nationwide real estate holdings, including Midtown Manhattan's 551 Fifth Avenue and two major Chicago office buildings. Of the 15 properties offered, all except one are office buildings.
National Real Estate Investor September 19, 2003 Parke Chapman	Giant Lease Signed In Downtown Manhattan Law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP has agreed in principle to sign a 20-year lease for 450,000 sq. ft. of office space at lower Manhattan's 1 World Financial Center. It would be the largest office lease signed in lower Manhattan since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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 May 1, 2005	$730.2 Million in Lending Facilitated in Manhattan by Singer & Bassuk The top 8 Manhattan deals facilitated by the mortgage broker since December: $178.9 million for 325 Fifth Avenue... $120 million for 88 Leonard Street... $116 million for 95-97 Horatio... etc.
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.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2007 S.J. Caplan	Gotta Love SL Green SLG, the only public office REIT primarily focused on Manhattan, posted second-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street's expectations.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	Crossing the Hudson The office market in Midtown Manhattan is blazing hot, with asking rents at prime buildings topping $100 per sq. ft. That has sent some tenants heading for Northern New Jersey where it is possible to find rents in Class-A buildings for less than $35 per sq. ft.
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.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2007 S.J. Caplan	SL Green's Golden Earnings The Manhattan-heavy REIT reports sturdy quarterly results.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Ira Breskin	Office Development Survives Tech Wreck Developers of i.park -- a 1.4 million sq. ft. reconfigured office complex 15 miles outside of Manhattan -- had to shelve their original vision of opening a "telco hotel." But i.park Holdings LLC is having success with a new strategy of luring tenants with special post-9/11 needs.
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	Brokerages Benefit by Selling Frenzy Demand for real estate product not only benefitted sellers in 2004, but it also proved to be a boon for the nation's largest commercial real estate brokerages... Notable Deals... Ranking Changes... etc.
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Jessica Miller	Office Properties: The Worst Could Be Ahead After hotels, the office sector is the biggest victim of the soft economy. And unlike the retail, industrial and multifamily sectors, experts predict that office fundamentals will continue to crumble before improvement begins some time in 2004.
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 December 1, 2004 Jim Popp	Don't Let Assessors Box You In Stand-alone retail boxes are among the least complex types of real estate. However, these boxes are often misunderstood and, as a result, overvalued by property tax authorities.
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2004 Michael Fickes	Ric Clark: The Rock Behind the Brookfield REOC With a 2003 equity market capitalization of $4.9 billion, up from $3.1 billion the year before, Brookfield owns 47 Class AA and A properties spanning 46 million square feet.
Inc. November 2006	A Tale of Two Sites A look at two major Web players in commercial real estate.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	Office Glut at Ground Zero The jury decision on insurance liability for the World Trade Center could clear the way for five new office towers to be developed around Ground Zero in a larger plan that could cost as much as $9 billion.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	A Sellers' Conundrum Selling quality commercial real estate into the current market is pretty simple, as REITs have proven over the past few years. But profit-taking sellers soon become buyers, and this part of the equation is far more arduous.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2003	American Financial Buys $769 Million Office Portfolio Fresh after its IPO last week, American Financial Realty Trust has purchased 158 properties from Bank of America Corp. for nearly $800 million. The 8.1 million sq. ft. portfolio consists of office buildings, banking and operations centers scattered throughout 19 states.
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 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 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.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2003 Gretchen Pienta	Subleasing Solutions Use these strategies to effectively market and lease excess space.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2007	Correction: Correction to the reported amounted of space that CB Richard Ellis manages globally.
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 August 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	Residential Rebound Four years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, residential sales and rentals in Manhattan are soaring.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2014 Robert Hand	Lease Buyout Decisions This case study shows how to quantify and visualize risk.
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 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 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 April 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	A Double-Barreled Recovery Remember that so-called disconnect between commercial property values and fundamentals? If 2005 was any indication, it may soon be forgotten... Top 25 Brokerages... Top Three Sales Transactions of 2005... etc.
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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.
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2005 Joe Gose	Why Office Owners Can't Resist the Quick Flip Are private investment funds turning into short-term holders of office assets in return for fast profits, or are they simply taking full advantage of the wide-open capital spigot that's flooding the property markets?
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2003	Top 25 Brokerages The Top 25 Brokerages listing is based on data provided by participating companies. Brokers were asked to provide the total dollar value of leasing transactions and investment sales during 2002. The totals were combined to determine the company's ranking.