Financial Reform Will Test Patience of Commercial Real Estate Professionals
Jul 28, 2010, By Matt Hudgins, NREI Contributor
It will be months or years before the commercial real estate industry feels — or even fully understands — the full impact of sweeping financial reforms that the president signed into law earlier this month, experts say. ...
In Choosing Sites, Retailers Want Traffic Counts, But Landlords Don’t Deliver
Jul 28, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Retailers are finding that landlords are being less than forthcoming when it comes to providing foot traffic counts....
Developers Rethink the Mall for the 21st Century
Jul 27, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Regional malls have performed better in the downturn than many expected, leading many to give the concept another look....
Landlords Can Benefit From Targeting Professional Services Providers as Tenants
Jul 22, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Working with non-retail uses can sometimes be a boon for shopping centers....
Loan-to-Value Ratios Spike Following Wave of Reappraisals, Says Trepp
Jul 21, 2010, By Matt Valley, NREI Editor-in-Chief
Special servicers face a daunting task in trying to resolve billions of dollars in troubled commercial real estate loans based on new research from Trepp LLC. ...
Landlords Can Help Small Restaurateurs Find Success
Jul 20, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Many landlords are targeting smaller, independent restaurateurs, many of which have no experience operating in a shopping center environment....
Local Restaurants Can Be A Point of Distinction for Malls
Jul 20, 2010, By David Bodamer
Major regional mall and shopping center developers have put an emphasis on recruiting independent restaurateurs to locate in their projects across the country. ...
A Weak Economy Has Not Derailed Retail Developers’ Desires to Go Green
Jul 19, 2010, By Mike Janssen
Developers and architects are not wavering in their resolve to pursue sustainable, environmentally friendly projects. ...
General Growth / Jones Lang Pact Looks Like Win-Win Deal
Jul 13, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Jones Lang LaSalle's announced acquisition of General Growth Properties’ third party management business appears to be a boon for both companies. ...
Managers of Distressed Centers Recruit Tenants to Help Their Cause
Jul 13, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Working with existing tenants can help managers turn around distressed properties. ...
Private Equity Investors Take a New Look at Retail, But Will Likely Remain Cautious
Jul 7, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Private equity firms are once again in the market prowling for retail buyout opportunities. ...
What Financial Reform Means for Commercial Real Estate
Jul 6, 2010, By David Bodamer
The 2,319-page financial reform bill working its way through Congress will have some effects on commercial real estate lending....
Retail Architects Cut Costs, Diversify and Look Overseas as U.S. Development Remains Slow
Jun 29, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Retail architects have navigated the sector's downturn by adopting a variety of tactics....
As Demand for Space Increases, Retailers Ask for Fewer Handouts
Jun 22, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
The flood of concession requests that inundated landlords in 2009 has subsided so far in 2010. ...
Recent Deals Signal Spark in CMBS Market
Jun 8, 2010, By Jennifer Popovec
The CMBS market is returning--and retail has been at the heart of its recovery....
The Luxury Market Turns Its Attention Back to Core Customers
Jun 1, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
While most industry insiders expect that eventually the aspirational shopper will come back, that’s not likely to happen for several years....
Lifestyle Center Developers Apply Lessons Learned During the Downturn
May 17, 2010, Elaine Misonzhnik
Some lifestyle centers took a beating during the recession. Now proponents are applying lessons learned and amending the concept....
Mind Reading
May 10, 2010, Elaine Misonzhnik
While consumers are recovering some of their buying prowess, spending power is nowhere near what it was in 2006 and 2007....
Federal Realty’s prudent strategies serve it well in a tough period.
May 4, 2010, Mike Janssen
Federal Realty Investment Trust weathered the downturn primarily by sticking with tried-and-true principles of its 42-year history. ...
Some Retail Landlords Take an Inteventionist Approach and Incubate New Tenants
Apr 27, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Incubating has become a popular tactic in a market that’s been ravaged by store closings and bankruptcies....
Co-tenancy Clauses Can Cause Headaches in Resolving Lifestyle Centers
Apr 13, 2010, By David Bodamer
Cotenancy clauses can create difficulties in dealing with troubled lifestyle centers. ...
Holding Steady
Apr 8, 2010
There was very little movement at the top of the retail real estate food chain in 2009....
Reassessing Distress
Mar 30, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
To date in 2010, Phillips Edison's and PECO Capital's $70 million Strategic Investment Fund I, which targets distressed retail developments and loans,...
What Drives David Simon
Mar 18, 2010, Denise Kalette
David Simon doesn't like to take no for an answer. The chairman and CEO of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group didn't grow his company into the nation's largest public real estate firm by being a shrinking violet....
The Mall of America Takes on the Great Recession
Mar 2, 2010
It might come as a shock to many mall owners who spent 2009 struggling to reconcile their budgets, but it turned out to be a pretty good year for the Mall of America. ...
