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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 February 1, 2005 Paula Widholm	Chicago is Back on the Upswing "Live, work, play" has been downtown Chicago's catchphrase since 2000. In recent years it's been amplified by a surge in new high-rise condo projects, office skyscrapers and a new nearly half-billion dollar lakefront park.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2003 Cassidy & Ausburn	Cities Provide Incentives to Increase Urban Multifamily Development Demographic, social, and economic changes are creating long-term opportunities for multifamily developers and investors to acquire, build, and redevelop properties in urban cores.
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 June 1, 2006 H. Lee Murphy	The Inn Is Open And For Sale In the past year, with convention business returning and tourists flocking to new attractions like Millennium Park on the Lake Michigan waterfront, Chicago has suddenly emerged as the darling of the hospitality industry. As buyers have looked in Chicago, they've found willing sellers.
CFO February 1, 2006 P.B. Gray	Striking a Balance on the Build-Out As rents rise across the country, CFOs are negotiating more aggressively to save money on the cost of outfitting new office space.
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 September 1, 2004 Joe Gose	Connecting Technology with Tenants Office building owners over the last three years have had little choice but to become models of operating efficiency to weather the economic downturn.
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 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, 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?
CFO December 1, 2007 Alix Stuart	A Tale of Six Cities Cross-town or cross-country, for CFOs, the search for better real estate deals is on.
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 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 February 1, 2007 Morris Newman	Biotech Clouds Don't Obscure San Diego's Sunny Future Nothing in life is perfect, but the suburban office markets of San Diego County have little to complain about at present in spite of the tepid biotech sector, once the crown jewel of the area's economy.
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 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.
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 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	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 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 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 September 1, 2005 H. Lee Murphy	One of the Last Wildcat Developers The Alter Group continues to build industrial, office and even retail properties around the U.S. as a family-owned, self-financed development firm under the aegis of the man who founded it exactly a half-century ago.
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 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.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2013 Sara Drummond	Stuck in Neutral Office leasing can't get up to speed.
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 H. Lee Murphy	Enticing Returns It's a great time to be a seller of industrial property.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Mar/Apr 2015 Beth Mattson --Teig	Stalled Out Office leasing could use a charge in smaller markets.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Jennifer Dawson	Re-Energizing Houston Although the energy industry in Houston is enjoying a resurgence, the office sector continues to lag the broader economic recovery with a metro vacancy rate of nearly 18%. But increasingly the market appears poised for a major turnaround.
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 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 May 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Double-Edged Recovery Technology now appears to be curtailing office demand as fewer tenants feel the need to aggressively lease expansion space -- the heady formula that knocked national office vacancy down around about 12% by 2000.
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.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2007 Jennifer Norbut	Today's Office Tenets Commercial real estate professionals share insights on leasing philosophies in their local markets.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Matt Kelly	Boston's High-Tech Hangover Boston is an anxious place these days. Gone is the stellar real estate market of a few years ago. A malaise of high vacancy rates, falling rents and a development pipeline that clogged at the first hint of a recession have replaced the salad days of 2000.
National Real Estate Investor May 19, 2003 Parke Chapman	Fitch: Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas Office Markets Continue to Struggle The nation's office market is weak, but some areas are faring far worse than others, reports Fitch Ratings. Between the beginning of 2000 and 2003, U.S office vacancy nearly doubled from 8.6% to 16.9% according to Fitch.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jan/Feb 2008 Sara Drummond	Regional Outlook Markets to Watch: Minneapolis-St.Paul... Boston High-Rise Market Tightens... etc.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2004 Ralph Bivins	Midtown Houston Ignites Real Estate Recovery The area is benefiting from a surge of deals related to the light rail line that opened early in 2004, among other factors. Residential, commercial, and industrial property are picking up.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Joe Gose	Energy: Balance Sheets Get A Charge from Conservation Rising energy costs and a heightened environmental awareness have forced owners of office buildings to scrutinize their energy consumption like never before.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Dana Dubbs	A Towering Question These are trying days for Philadelphia's downtown office market. Now, three separate office developments are on the drawing board, including a $700 million world trade complex that would add 2.3 million sq. ft. of space. Local real estate professionals are skeptical.
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, 2008 Ben Johnson	Big D Big on Mixed-Use Buoyed by population growth that continues to outpace the rest of the nation, Dallas developers seemingly are in a race to break ground on a whole new generation of projects, each including a variety of mixed uses.