Collateral Damage
Nov 1, 2007, By Beth Mattson-Teig
This year was supposed to be the coming-out party for the commercial real estate collateralized debt obligation (CRE CDO) market. After topping $35 billion...
Retail Real Estate Braces for Pricing Drop
Sep 19, 2007
The retail real estate industry feared this moment for the past three years, but everyone knew it would come. The first hints arrived early this summer, when class B and C retail assets started trading at cap rates higher than 7 percent, above last year's sector-wide average of 6.9 percent. The reported increases ranged from 30 to 100 basis points, depending on the region. ...
Reaping The Rewards
Sep 1, 2007, By Jennifer Popovec
Jeffrey Packard, an assistant vice president with life insurance company John Hancock, which does about $2 billion in commercial mortgage lending, has...
Bye-Bye Buy-Outs
Sep 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Suddenly those barbarians don't look quite so more than two years private equity firms were titans of capital, raising mountains of cash and seemingly...
The Big Comedown
Sep 1, 2007, By Jennifer Popovec
The spreads between 10-year Treasuries and CMBS loans now jump more in a couple days than they did in whole years. Those 10-year, interest-only loans...
Business Deals
Aug 1, 2007
Colliers International negotiated the sale of the Center at Troon North, a 63,016-square-foot mixed-use property in North Scottsdale, Ariz., to Hurd Real...
Retail Lender List
Jun 1, 2007
A year ago it seemed interest rates were finally on the rise as 10-year Treasuries crept above 5 percent and seemed destined to move even higher. Today the notes are actually priced less than they were at the same time last year....
New Deals Raise Eyebrows as M&A Trend Reigns On
May 30, 2007
The commercial real estate sector is still in the mergers and acquisitions mode, with two new deals announced last week involving a national brokerage firm and a commercial mortgage lender...
BUSINESS DEALS
May 1, 2007
Buchanan Street Partners closed its Buchanan Fund V, a value-added fund with equity commitments totaling $414 million. As of the closing, on March 30, the fund had made $134 million in commitments to properties with total project costs of more than $500 million....
Approaching $3 Trillion
May 1, 2007
The total amount of outstanding mortgage debt on commercial real estate ended 2006 just under $3 trillion and was up $340 billion from the end of 2005....
