The Mezzanine Section is the Nose Bleed Section
by The Wall Street Journal has an article in the C Section by Jennifer S. Forsyth and Kemba J. Dunham on real estate mezzanine loans: Real-Estate …
Tag: real estate market conditions
REIT Stocks Continue to Tumble
On Tuesday, the MSCI US REIT Index (RMZ) dropped 5.61% to 914.85, and the SNL US REIT Equity Index plummeted 5.59% to 235.96 with five …
Webcasts from NAREIT Annual Convention
The NAREIT Annual Convention was held in Las Vegas on November 14-16. Webcasts of the presentations are available on the NAREIT website: http://nareit.454creative.net/ Gil Menna …
Transactions-Based Index for the Third Quarter
The MIT Center for Real Estate has just released the results from the third quarter of 2007: Transactions-Based Index (TBI) The results from the quarter …
Looking ahead to 2008
According to the Urban Land Institutes’s Emerging Trends Report it will be A Not So Great 2008, as reported in the National Real Estate Investor. …
Debt Market Update – LIBOR Upswing
I got this update from Chatham Financial this morning: As many of you may have already heard, 1M LIBOR opened up 19bps this morning. This …
Debt Markets Continue to Implode
Real Estate Finance and Investment is reporting that five securitizations worth at least $4.8 billion have been pulled from the market in the last week. …
Historic Turning Points in Real Estate by Robert Shiller
Robert J. Schiller published a new paper that looks for markers at the ends of real estate booms or busts:Historic Turning Points in Real Estate …
Foreclosure Activity in Middlesex North Registry of Deeds
Dick Howe at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in Lowell reports that foreclosure sales are up but that the foreclosure pipeline has not dramatically …
One Financial Center in Boston goes on the market
The Boston Globe is reporting that the original developer/long-time owners of One Financial Center in Boston are cashing out: Amid towering prices, One Financial Center …
Justifying New York Rents
Howard Michaels of The Carlton Group justifies the high prices being paid for commercial real estate in New York in Real Estate Finance and Investment: …
Skyscraper Prices Might Start Returning to Earth – WSJ.com
WSJ.com reports Skyscraper Prices Might Start Returning to Earth(subscription required). In part because “On April 11, Moody’s Investor Service sent up a warning flare, saying …