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National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2005 Bennett Voyles |
The China Risk Puzzle After years of glowing reports about the booming growth of Chinese real estate, a number of leading Western developers and private equity funds are preparing to enter the market. |
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, 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. |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2010 Jeremy Myers |
Can "Delay and Pray" Save Commercial Real Estate? It's a toss-up if we can bank on it for the long term. |
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 February 1, 2005 Bennett Voyles |
Cracking the Forbidden Market In the real estate world, old ideas about China still seem to hold sway. |
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. |
BusinessWeek February 18, 2010 Forsythe & Hamlin |
The Building Bubble in China Much of China's stimulus money was spent on skyscrapers, spurring fears of a real estate bust. |
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 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 January 1, 2006 Joe Gose |
Growth Prescription: Medical Office Real estate investors have discovered healthy returns in the decidedly ill health care industry. The allure of medical office buildings hinges largely on predictable occupancy patterns. |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Bennett Voyles |
A Sky-High Tax Increase Still reeling from the recession and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the New York real estate industry now faces one more blow: an 18.5% increase in the city's real property tax. |
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, 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 July 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
Loading Up on Warehouses At a time when businesses are straining to meet global competition, companies are demanding more state-of-the art warehouses. That is pushing up prices. In some markets, land is at a premium. |
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. |
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 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. |
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Roberts & Balfour |
Are China's Home Lenders Pumping Up A Bubble? The ease with which home-buyers jump into the real estate market is fueling much of China's current boom -- and worrying Chinese authorities. |
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. |
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 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 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 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 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 July 1, 2006 Bennett Voyles |
Global Investors Play Offense in Germany Like value-style equity investors who buy stocks in reliable but out-of-favor companies, institutional commercial real estate investors have been finding relative bargains in Germany. |
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 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 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 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 May 1, 2008 Joe Gose |
Survival of the Fittest Consumers are being forced to curtail their spending. Retailers have responded by closing stores, reversing ambitious expansion plans and, in some cases, filing for bankruptcy. That in turn puts stress on retail real estate landlords. |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2005 |
Ten to Watch Larry Silverstein, President and CEO, Silverstein Properties... Mike Bush, Executive Director, Project Real Estate Associate Program (REAP)... Michael Depatie, CEO of Real Estate, Kimpton Group Holding LLC... etc. |
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 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 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 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 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 July 1, 2005 Christine Perez |
A Tale of Two Office Submarkets It appears Dallas is on the verge of another economic rebound, with nearly all of the new office development occurring in two key submarkets -- Downtown/Uptown and Far North Dallas. But too much new construction could push buyers to other cities. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2005 Alan Heavens |
Philly's Downtown Resurgence Downtown Philadelphia's renaissance offers a compelling argument that the region is primed for additional growth. Condos are hot and retailers are adding space, but office vacancies are high and likely to go even higher. |
FDIC FYI March 21, 2002 |
Weak Fundamentals for U.S. Office Markets The U.S. commercial office sector eclipsed a variety of records for speed of decline in 2001. Commercial real estate lenders may experience rising delinquencies in 2002, as office vacancy rates appear likely to increase further... |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 Bennett Voyles |
Tokyo Economy Takes Flight After a decade when the game seemed permanently over, someone finally hit the reset button on the Japanese economy, and the Tokyo office market is once again heading up, up, and away. |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2004 Parke Chapman |
What Does It All Add Up To? After three years of recession-induced angst, the commercial real estate industry is finally on the mend. Still, there is some 260 million sq. ft. of vacant office space nationwide, an overhang that could take years to burn off. |
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 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 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 January 1, 2005 Hortense Leon |
Orlando Diversifies and Prospers Orlando has evolved into a dynamic and diverse economy with a bustling urban center undergoing $1.3 billion of new real estate development. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2005 Parke Chapman |
Rental Rates Reflect Slow Office Recovery Despite falling vacancies and limited new construction, the national office market is experiencing only a modest uptick in rents. For the impasse to be broken, leasing demand must increase -- and the only means to that end is jobs. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2004 Karen E. Thuermer |
Mega-Projects Give the District a New Look The dominating presence of the federal government in Washington, D.C. historically has helped ensure a stable commercial real estate market. But even by that standard, what's unfolding in the D.C. market is impressive. |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Jones Lang LaSalle Shares Jumped, Then Cooled: What You Need to Know Shares of real estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle soared in early trading, gaining as much as 11% in intraday trading before giving much of it back. |
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. |