Finance: REITs
Mall REITs Stall on Slowdown in Consumer Spending
May 7, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
Consumers' tightened purse strings constricted regional mall REIT performance in the first quarter. With six of the eight regional mall REITs reporting results so far...
UNUSUAL PAIRINGS
Apr 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
Just because it's difficult to borrow money doesn't mean development plans need to come to a halt. In fact, the credit crunch and the resultant drop in...
Credit Squeeze Forges Some Atypical Unions
Mar 19, 2008
Just because it's difficult to borrow money doesn't mean development plans need to come to a halt....
DRIFTING AWAY
Mar 1, 2008, By Jennifer Popovec
The residential real estate sector continues its dramatic correction. Defaults have spread beyond subprime mortgages and into Alt-A loans, as well as...
CHUGGING ALONG
Mar 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
Conservative balance sheets provided a lift for high-flying shopping center REITs in 2007. Through Feb. 21, 10 of the 14 shopping center REITs had reported...
Debt a Lingering Issue for Shopping Center REITs in 2008
Feb 20, 2008
Conservative balance sheets provided a lift for high-flying shopping center REITs in 2007. With 10 of the 14 shopping center REITs having reported their fourth quarter 2007 earnings, including most of the largest firms...
Regional Mall REITs Anchored in Choppy Water
Feb 13, 2008
As regional mall REITs began filing their 2007 fourth quarter and year-end earnings last week, two overriding questions emerged for 2008. Will the sluggishness in the retail sector result in rising vacancies and, therefore, falling rents? And will the debt loads hurt REIT performance? ...
Change at the Top
Feb 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
With a Feb. 15 deadline to pay off or refinance $3.5 billion in short-term debt exactly one month away, embroiled Australian listed property trust Centro...
GGP Strikes Back at Debt Critics
Feb 1, 2008
In light of the debt troubles at Centro Properties Group, General Growth Properties has become the subject of rumors that it too would have problems refinancing...
Inland American Flirts With Acquiring Cedar
Jan 30, 2008
A slowing economy, declining property values and frozen credit markets were supposed to mean that this would be a year of one-off deals. But there could be at least one REIT merger in the works. ...
