Simon Offers $10B for General Growth
Feb 16, 2010
Simon Property Group dropped a bombshell in announcing that it has made a $10 billion offer to acquire General Growth Properties....
Brokers Predict Slight Uptick in Sales of Retail Property
Jan 5, 2010
The last three months of 2009, brought an uptick in new sales and hope that 2010 might prove to be a marginal improvement. ...
Thompson Sees Opportunity to Invest in Retail Real Estate
Dec 11, 2009, David Bodamer
This summer, Thompson launched TNP Strategic Retail Trust Inc. The non-traded REIT is aimed at investing in neighborhood multi-tenant grocery-anchored shopping centers and free standing single-tenant retail properties, primarily in the Western United States. It will also offer mortgage, mezzanine, bridge and other loans related to commercial real estate....
Simon Makes Surprise Move and Expands Its Outlet Portfolio
Dec 8, 2009
Simon Property Group worked out a surprise deal to acquire Prime Outlets for $2.3 billion....
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. ...
Phillips Edison Seizes on Growth Opportunities
Nov 23, 2009
Cincinati-based Phillips Edison & Co. has continued to grow despite an economy that has led to a more opaque and cautious real estate environment....
Investment Sales Market for Retail Shows No Sign of Improvement
Sep 15, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Those in the retail real estate industry who hoped the second half of 2009 would bring the long-awaited rush of investment sales transactions are likely to be disappointed...
Lack of Transactions Makes True Cap Rates Hard To Pin Down (7/21)
Jul 21, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
One of the big challenges facing the retail real estate sector is that with so few investment sales getting done there is little confidence that the prices paid on the few deals currently getting closed reflect true property values or cap rates...
Private Equity Racks Up Checkered Record in Retail Buyouts (6/29)
Jun 29, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
When Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), the legendary New York City-based private equity player, purchased the discount retailer Dollar General for $7.3 billion in July of 2007, the deal hardly made waves...
Retail Property Sellers Opt to Offer Financing to Get Deals Done (6/11)
Jun 11, 2009, By Hortense Leon
Some property owners have gotten creative and begun to finance shopping center sales themselves...
