Watching Global Capital Markets for Clues on Real Estate Performance On July 31, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 317 points, erasing all of 2014’s gain, mainly on news that Argentina would default on part…
Rising Competition Causes Investors to Expand into New Property Segments As an investor, do you want to attract transients to your property? You do if the property is a marina—in that world, “transient” is the…
Real Estate Advisors Consider Effects of Dodd-Frank Implementation Dodd-Frank, the most sweeping financial industry reform since the Great Depression, is aimed at banks and investment banks, but it also has big implications for commercial real…
What’s Behind the Interest Rate Slide? Last summer, the Federal Reserve’s then-chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that interest rates would probably start rising if unemployment dropped to 8.5 percent and inflation remained in the 2 percent…
CMBS Volume Falls Short of Predictions, But Delinquencies Fall Faster Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) issuance in the first quarter of 2014 shows a market easing off its record pace, but still on track for a…
After Olympics, What Happens to Sochi Structures? While the Winter Olympics were under way, media attention was focused more on the international competitions and less on development and site issues (such as security concerns and…
Three Reasons Why Treasury Rise Might Not Affect Cap Rates The real estate investment community took note of the recent 100-basis-point rise in 10-year Treasury rates. Some investors may have briefly hit the ‘pause’ button…
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