Soft Landing
Nov 1, 2007
The U.S. commercial real estate market will experience a slowdown next year, with rising cap rates and tightening lending requirements, says a recent...
2008 Commercial Real Estate Forecast Looking a Bit Cloudy
Oct 25, 2007
The commercial real estate industry has put on a brave front, but signs of pessimism about the coming months are increasing. The question has shifted from, "Will things turn?" to ...
Shrinking Development Yields Place Retail REITs at Crossroads
Oct 17, 2007
Suddenly, development doesn't seem like quite the safe bet that it did at the beginning of the year for retail REITs. ...
REIT Joint Ventures Unfazed By Credit Market Tumult
Sep 26, 2007
In the first half of the year, it seemed retail REITs announced joint ventures on an almost daily basis. But will the recent troubles in the debt market make this once-popular investment play more difficult to pull off?...
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. ...
One For The Books
Sep 1, 2007
Woolbright Development Inc., a Boca Raton, Fla.-based owner and developer of shopping centers, set a company record by completing more than $100 million...
Shuffling The Deck
Sep 1, 2007
Call it the Westfield Two-Step. In deals worth a combined $1.43 billion, Australian mall giant Westfield Group reached agreements with regional mall REITs...
Boston's Big Deal
Sep 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In the largest portfolio sale in Massachusetts history, Dividend Capital Total Realty Trust Inc., a Denver-based diversified REIT, reached a deal to acquire...
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...
Time For The Fall
Sep 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
As the shopping center REIT sector along with all other REITs continues to get massacred in a stock sell-off, industry observers are keeping a stiff upper...
