November 30, 2011
Harvest Properties announced the signing of Avaya to a significant lease agreement.
November 30, 2011
Malkin Holdings, the agency that manages the famous 102-story Empire State Building, is considering making the property the center of a new public real estate investment trust early next year
November 30, 2011
In an unstable economy, location is increasingly essential to the survival of commercial real estate investment firms.
November 30, 2011
Global economic concerns have stalled commercial real estate activity in some areas of the globe and due to amendments within the property market, real estate activity in China will be reduced.
November 30, 2011
Normandy Real Estate Partners has laid plans to acquire 1370 Broadway in New York City for $125 million.
November 30, 2011
Job creation and economic growth over the next year will boost the commercial real estate market in the United States during 2012.
November 29, 2011
Low rental rates and a teetering economy can sometimes make it difficult for investors to convert them into condominiums, but this also gives way for great commercial real estate deals for investors.
November 29, 2011
Penzance, a private real estate investment firm, announced it has bought the infamous Watergate office property.
November 29, 2011
Based on Cushman & Wakefield's 2012 Office Outlook, Canadian commercial real estate transactions in the office sector are projected to slow down during the middle stages of 2012, but eventually pick up by the end of the year.
November 29, 2011
Golub & Company and BlackRock have now sold the 22 West Washington office property in Chicago for $183.5 million to Prudential Real Estate Investors.
November 29, 2011
European banks are lending funds to investors to acquire commercial portfolios in hopes of selling distressed assets because of increasingly stringent regulations which are hampering growth, Bloomberg reports.
November 29, 2011
A healthier Canadian economy during 2011 has driven hotel real estate sales forward and projections for year-end transactions within the sector are estimated at $1 billion, according to Colliers International Hotels.
November 28, 2011
Although the instability of the economy has hindered national commercial real estate sales relative to the market's peak right before the recession of 2008.
November 28, 2011
Moody's/REAL National All Property Price Index dropped 1.4 percent during September, noting a decline in overall U.S. commercial real estate prices.
November 28, 2011
In an effort to accumulate portfolios in South Africa, real estate agencies have invested billions in non-leased office properties.
November 23, 2011
Due to regulatory changes in the bank industry, Deutsche Bank is considering to sell most or all of its 516 billion euro ($690 billion USD) asset management division, which would include RREEF.
November 23, 2011
Even through global economic instability, and an overall decline in commercial real estate transactions worldwide over the past few years, Kuwait managed to show growth during September.
November 22, 2011
Standard Life Investments and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership are increasing commercial property investments in hopes the projections of higher rental rates in London and its surrounding suburbs are true, Bloomberg reports.
November 21, 2011
Blackstone Group announced plans to acquire a 16-office building portfolio valued at approximately $800 million.
November 21, 2011
Since 2005, leasing opportunities for U.S. shopping centers has been relatively abundant, but for the first time in more than 6 years, availability will decline next year as a result of a reinvigorated economy, CBRE Group explains.
November 21, 2011
Australia's Leighton Properties announced the sale of its new office tower in Ipswich to Cromwell for $93 million.
November 21, 2011
Feeling the pressure to cut property debt, Spanish banks have approximately ?30 billion ($41 billion USD) of unsellable real estate, Bloomberg reveals.
November 18, 2011
Based on a study the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, India is facing a real estate and construction crisis.
November 18, 2011
Inland Western Retail announced the acquisition of 1890 Ranch for $97.6 million through a joint venture with RioCan.
November 18, 2011
Fisher Communications announced an agreement to sell Fisher Plaza for $160 million to Hines Global.
November 17, 2011
Proposals up for debate leading into the 2012 election could weigh heavy on the future of the commercial real estate industry, but experts suggest real change may not happen until afterward, National Real Estate Investor reports.
November 17, 2011
Multi-Employer Property Trust announced with its advisor, Bentall Kennedy, that it has committed more than $100 million in equity to develop a 35-story, 165-unit apartment complex in Manhattan.
November 16, 2011
Based on Jones Lang LaSalle's annual Law Firm Office Perspective report, the unstable United States economy has hampered the legal sector, forcing numerous firms to downsize office space.
November 16, 2011
The European debt crisis burdened UK capital growth and the total return of 0.6 percent for October was primarily stimulated by income, according to the IPD UK Monthly Index.
November 16, 2011
Taiwan's commercial property sales during the fourth quarter could reach NT$45 billion (USD $1.49 billion), which would mark a year-high figure in large part due to the increased demand from domestic life insurance agencies, Tapei Times reports.
November 15, 2011
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler announced a $115 million refinancing for 980 Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
November 14, 2011
According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Hotel Investor Sentiment Survey, the EMEA hotel market declined in the second and third quarter, but the following six months should show an increase in trading activity.
November 14, 2011
Office rentals in Asia-Pacific rose at approximately twice the international pace during the third quarter as a result of increased capital in China, Jones Lang LaSalle said in its Global Market Perspective Third Quarter 2011 report.
November 11, 2011
Based on a report by Savills, New York City is again the number one leader in commercial real estate investing.
November 11, 2011
Hines Global announced the acquisition of the Campus at Marlborough in Massachusetts from Bel Marlborough I for $103 million.
November 10, 2011
U.S. real estate investment trusts with substantial capital are renovating buildings while raising rents instead of acquiring new properties, Bloomberg reports.
November 09, 2011
Fir Tree Partners announced the close of its $628 million committed capital Real Estate Opportunity Fund II, which surpassed its original target by $128 million.
November 09, 2011
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on hand as the Gotham organization broke ground on an affordable housing complex on the Far West Side of Manhattan, which will be the largest construction project on the island.
November 08, 2011
Prudential Mortgage Capital Company and Northwestern Mutual Real Estate Investments together provided a $200 million loan for Santa Monica, California-based real estate investment trust The Macerich Company.
November 08, 2011
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler announced the sale of a 16-property self storage portfolio in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania.
November 08, 2011
On behalf of its European Retail Property Fund, Herald, Henderson Global Investors announced the acquisition of Galerie des Ailes in Le Blanc Mesnil, France, and Real Hypermarket and Gallery in Dreieich, Germany, for 100 million euros ($137.5 million USD).
November 07, 2011
The Q3 IPD U.K. Quarterly Property Index explains the struggling economy has resulted in a deteriorating value across the commercial property market.
November 07, 2011
Real estate developers in the Washington, D.C. area are planning to build office properties speculatively, though numerous investors are awaiting bank loans, The Washington Post reports.
November 04, 2011
Based on the Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations by the Mortgage Bankers Association, commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations during the third quarter of 2011 were 98 percent higher than the same time last year.
November 04, 2011
The Oak Point 55-and-over residential complex in Middleboro, Massachusetts, was sold to Hometown America for $55 million, The Enterprise reports.
November 03, 2011
Based on RICS' third quarter 2011 Global Commercial Property Survey, the global real estate market is showing signs of the effects of a softer macroeconomic climate.
November 03, 2011
Harrison Street Real Estate Capital announced the acquisition of E-Quest Portfolio, a portfolio with eight senior housing properties in Houston and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for approximately $125 million.
November 02, 2011
Faris Lee Investments announced the sale of The District at Green Valley Ranch by LNR Partners for $79.3 million to Vestar Development and Rockwood Capital.
November 02, 2011
In its Third Quarter 2011 North America Retail Highlights report, Colliers International revealed that the national retail real estate sector will close out with a slow growth period, as investors, developers and retailers hold back their investments.
November 02, 2011
MetLife recently announced that it had granted a total of $725 million in financing for a pair of Manhattan offices.
