Retail Real Estate Should Begin Its Healing Process in 2010
Dec 4, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
After suffering through a moribund 2009 when investment sales, lending and leasing were largely frozen, the retail real estate industry is showing signs that the long-awaited rebound may be starting. ...
FDIC’s Recommendations for Commercial Real Estate Loans Begin to Ease Borrowers’ Woes
Dec 1, 2009
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) policy recommendations for banks dealing with troubled commercial real estate loans appear to be easing the burden on borrowers facing falling property values. ...
Leasing Demand Improves for Shopping Center REITs in the Third Quarter
Nov 17, 2009
After months of scrambling for tenants, shopping center REITs reported a rise in leasing activity in the third quarter....
Retail Financing Flows to Favored Borrowers and Property Types
Nov 10, 2009, By Beth Mattson-Teig
Following a year when getting a loan for a retail project seemed about as likely as hitting a Powerball jackpot, prospective borrowers are sensing that lenders may remove the vice grip on their purse strings in 2010. ...
Regional Mall REITs Show Stability in the Third Quarter
Nov 10, 2009
Regional mall REITs turned a corner in the third quarter, as most of the sector's players focused on getting balance sheets in order and reported a more hopeful attitude from tenants....
CIT Bankruptcy Won't Pose an Immediate Threat to Retail Landlords
Nov 3, 2009
The retail real estate industry is well positioned to survive the bankruptcy of CIT Group Inc....
As Real Estate Players Focus on Core Competencies, Third Party Management Business Grows
Oct 27, 2009
RREEF's decisoin to outsource the property management contract for its retail portfolio underlines the trend of increasing specialization within the retail real estate industry....
Commercial Real Estate Debt Won't Be the Next Shoe to Drop, Economists Say
Oct 20, 2009, Elaine Misonzhnik
For months, the buzz has been that commercial real estate—with $3.4 trillion in outstanding debt, $1.4 trillion of which is coming due by the end of 2012—would precipitate the next leg in the credit crisis and possibly derail the broader economic recovery. To some, that mountain of debt coming due represents a clear parallel to the trillions of dollars in residential loans that helped destroy more than 100 banks and made the current recession the deepest and longest since the Great Depression. ...
Macerich Joint Venture Strategy Proves a Wise Decision, Drives up Stock Price, Analysts Say
Oct 6, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Macerich Co.'s latest joint venture—a deal with real estate investment management firm Heitman announced last week—is further proof that the regional mall REIT ...
Ready to Strike?
Oct 1, 2009
In mid-September, David Simon was interviewed on Bloomberg and the segment included a couple of choice tidbits. For one thing, Simon predicted prices...
