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National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Parke Chapman |
Outbidding the German Uber-bidders Even though Germans are still chasing the top office properties and have even more money to plow into U.S. real estate, they are facing new competition from pension funds, REITs and other domestic buyers willing to outbid them. |
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Jack Ewing |
A Property Market On Ice How Deutsche Bank has chilled German real estate funds. |
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. |
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Jack Ewing |
Will Germany Give REITs A Chance? They could boost a moribund property market -- if lawmakers give the go-ahead. |
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, 2005 Hortense Leon |
Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate Continues to Rise In 2004, foreign investors plowed $13 billion into U.S. real estate, an increase of more than 60%. The flood of capital shows no signs of retreating anytime soon. |
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. |
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 Fairlamb & Matlack |
Europe's Great Real Estate Sell-Off All across Europe, cash-poor municipalities and government agencies have started selling off public-sector housing and other properties to institutional investors. |
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 Jack Ewing |
Lone Star Germany: Ravenous For Bad Debt Private equity firm Lone Star is thriving by buying up Germany's troubled loans. |
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 April 1, 2006 Geoff Lewis |
Global Money Thinks Local The take-away from a recent international real estate expo is that global commercial real estate investors are directly competing with local investors. With all the global money pouring into commercial real estate, is there danger of a global bubble? |
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. |
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2004 Michael Fickes |
State of the Industry The publicly traded real estate industry has weathered the first economic recession of the modern REIT era. |
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 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 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. |
Real Estate Portfolio Jan/Feb 2001 Michael Fickes |
A Continental Flair Founded just over a year ago in November, 1999, Amsterdam-based EPRA has so far attracted 78 members, established the first real time index of public real estate companies across Europe, and laid a foundation for promoting a pan-European public real estate industry... |
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 Joe Gose |
Private Equity's Buying Binge Real estate private equity funds are on a frantic hunt for inefficiency. Bursting with cash and acutely aware that a storied 13-year real estate run is long in the tooth, the funds are snatching up what they consider to be undervalued properties and real estate companies. |
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 February 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
Advantage Institutions The modest rise in rates has eroded the profit margins of leveraged private buyers and strengthened the hand of institutions that pay mostly with cash. This year, pension funds plan to invest $59 billion in real estate in 2006, up from $51 billion in 2005, according to a new survey. |
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 |
A View From The Summit The problems facing commercial real estate CEOs at the dawn of 2003 are daunting. NREI tracked down five prominent CEOs to find out how they are handling the challenges facing their companies, their markets and commercial real estate in general. |
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, 2006 Matt Hudgins |
Now Comes the Hard Part Seasoned and novice commercial real estate investors alike have hit pay dirt in recent years. But the incredibly low cost of capital that fueled that pricing spiral is on its way up as both short-term and long-term interest rates rise. |
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. |
BusinessWeek February 17, 2010 Peter Coy |
Germany's Merkel: She's Got the Whole Euro in Her Hands Angela Merkel, the EU's most powerful leader, has to save Europe from itself. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2006 Jennifer Popovec |
Leaving Their Comfort Zone Enticed by commercial real estate's healthy returns over the past several years, institutional investors continue to plow increasing sums of capital into an assortment of property markets, but with a new international twist. |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2005 Matt Hudgins |
It's A Jungle Out There The stakes keep rising for buyers hunting office properties in a crowded commercial real estate market. An excess of capital and persistently low long-term interest rates have given sellers the upper hand. |
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. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2007 Pontius et al. |
Office Romance Private Equity and Commercial Property Briefs: Private equity power... The REIT direction... New competitors... What's driving local markets?... Sector to watch: Medical Office... etc. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2006 Bennett Voyles |
Beijing Goes for Gold The 2008 Olympics may be three years away, but right now the odds seem good that Beijing will set records in at least one event: the property value high-dive. But there are problems that threaten to drag the market down. |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2005 Matt Hudgins |
Good News, Bad News Commercial real estate execs aren't the only ones who misread the signals for 2005 and are baffled by what they see at mid-year. As Greenspan told lawmakers, this situation is "clearly without recent precedent." |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2010 Neil Faulkner |
What Germans Think About the Euro Crisis German confidence might fix the eurozone. |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
The New Power Players in Office Investing Undeterred by dizzying prices and unfettered by the demands of public shareholders obsessing over quarterly growth, partnerships like Blackstone Group and other private firms are outbidding REITs on marquee properties. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2006 Jeanne Lang Jones |
Seattle's Day in the Sun Because of the strengthening economy, vacancy rates and rents are improving in the Puget Sound's two largest office submarkets -- Seattle and Bellevue, a suburban city located on the east side of Lake Washington about a 30-minute drive from downtown Seattle. |
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2002 Anthony Carrick |
Q&A with Christopher Niehaus Christopher J. Niehaus, managing director and head of Morgan Stanley's North American Real Estate Investment Group, shares his thoughts on the capital markets for publicly traded real estate and the industry as a whole. |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2004 Stan Luxenberg |
Warehouses for Warsaw Corporate expansion in Poland during the past few years has led to a new generation of distribution centers exceeding 300,000 sq. ft. But Poland is not the only country where developers are redesigning warehouse and distribution centers. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 9, 2006 Roger Thompson |
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? |
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. |
BusinessWeek November 1, 2004 Jack Ewing |
A Glimpse Of Hope For Germany... Small signs of improvement are making optimists of some economists -- including the prestigious German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. |
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 David Fairlamb |
Banks Put The Squeeze On Euro-Zone Growth Cautious lenders are keeping interest rates up -- and making loans harder to get. That could stall an already slow recovery |
Investment Advisor June 2006 Kathleen M. McBride |
Location, Location, Location Ken Heebner's broader definition of real estate can mean opportunity for investors. |
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 March 7, 2005 John Rossant |
In Europe, Every Little Reform Counts A slew of modest economic policy moves in Germany and France may add up to brighter growth prospects for 2005. |
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. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2015 Kevin J. Thorpe |
Better Than Average The seeds of a record U.S. expansion are blowing in the wind and the same is true for commercial real estate trends. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Matt Valley |
A Total Return to the Basics Expect returns on commercial real estate properties to be powered more by income gains than price appreciation over the next two to three years as the super-heated investment sales market cools slightly. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Steve Webb |
Outsourcing: Fewer Deals for Bigger Players Companies with diverse global portfolios are turning to outsourcing firms to shave millions in dollars per year from their real estate operating budgets. |
National Real Estate Investor November 26, 2003 |
Jones Lang LaSalle Terminates European Executives The head of Jones Lang LaSalle's German operations has resigned, and two other JLL executives have been fired in connection with a criminal investigation. |