On Barren Ground (2/12)
Feb 12, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Five months after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the market for senior debt remains frozen...
Picking Up the Pieces (2/5)
Feb 5, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
The threat of large bankruptcies looms over the REIT universe. However, there’s reason to believe REITs might bounce back better than traditional corporations...
Expert Q&A: A Slow Recovery
Dec 1, 2008, By Bob Bach, Senior vice President and Chief Economist for Grubb & Ellis
Grubb & Ellis' chief economist Bob Bach spoke last month at the company's 2009 forecast preview. Bach, who says there is no question we are now in a recession,...
Damage Report
Nov 1, 2008, By Jennifer Popovec
Between September 19, the Friday before investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, and October 15, the day the U.S. government invested...
What's In It for Me?
Nov 1, 2008
With everything else that's happened since mid-September, Henry Paulson's bailout proposal, which grew from a three-page memo to a 450-page monstrosity,...
Transforming the Banking Sector
Nov 1, 2008
It's not unusual to see two or three bank failures a year, either from fraud or abuse of power or something less criminal, like mismanagement of funds....
Industry Backed Bailout, But Will it Help? (10/8)
Oct 8, 2008
After the House of Representatives surprisingly voted down the bailout bill early last week, nearly 20 commercial real estate groups jumped into action...
Hot Potato
Oct 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Where do we go from here? That was the question on many people's minds during the tumultuous two-week period in mid-September that took the credit crisis...
On the Chopping Block
Oct 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
As the credit markets remain frozen, the avalanche of bad news surrounding investment banking giants Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and insurance provider...
Lehman, Merrill Commercial Real Estate Assets Expected To Be Sold
Sep 24, 2008
With the credit markets seized, the avalanche of bad news surrounding investment banking giants Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and insurance provider AIG has caused a state of panic in the commercial real estate industry....
