Llenrock Blog has a good post up that gets into a topic that I’ve written about in the past.  Government is often the decider of who will be winners and who will be losers.  Llenrock uses the question “Is the government a player or a referee?” to illustrate the point.  From Llenrock:
“How many of you [...]

This one’s just for fun (and bragging rights), but I’ve created an NCAA tournament pool group at ESPN.com (see this link) for anybody real estate related that wants to get in and compete with some peers.  The winner of the pool will get a beautiful coffee mug like the one below (which I may or [...]

There’s a fantastic website that tracks loan delinquency analytics.  I’ve never heard of it before, but I’m pretty jealous that I didn’t think of it first.  Go check it out right now.
One thing I found to be interesting: construction loan defaults are showing signs of leveling off.

This piece from TrendCzar is interesting to me because long term changes in need for real estate space is, I think, a really compelling discussion.  First, from the piece:
But all that is changing. Companies realize they can cut costs and gain efficiencies by letting more of their senior staff work from home. Sure, these businesses [...]

One of the GlobeSt affiliated blogs is called Practical Counsel, written by Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner Maura O’Connor.  Today there’s a great post up regarding loan purchases.  From the post:
What we’re seeing now.  We’re seeing generally an uptick in distressed note purchases and sales.  However, there are fewer of these sales than one might expect.  [...]

Rule #2 is that if the Buyer is trying to oversell you on their capabilities to do deals, run.  There are a number of behaviors that fit into this rule.  If the Buyer sends their company brochure with offers, run.  If the Buyer spends the first 20 minutes of your conversation telling you a story [...]

I’ve seen several reports of recoveries in imports leading to increased strength in the industrial space market.  In reality imports are fairly important for the entire economy.  The graph below from Calculated Risk shows a fairly steady rebound in imports.  I’ve annotated the graph to show that imports are now at Q2 2006 levels.
I’m shooting [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking about some shorthand rules for being able to figure out whether you’re going to be able to complete a transaction.  These are almost warning signs that if they pop up during the negotiation of a deal, I can make an internal bet with myself as to whether or not the deal [...]

This item has been picked up by a few people already (RetailChatr and @Maggiacomo) but I saw another side to the story that I thought was worth exploring.
The Cliffs Notes version of the story is that a broker that represented Landlord #1 tried to keep a tenant of Landlord #1’s from relocating to a new [...]

I’ve written in the past on the “vicious cycle” aspect of the real estate downturn and credit collapse.  Banks are frozen and can’t lend for commercial real estate, which hurts deal volume, which drives down prices, which further hurts the banks’ underlying collateral (the same banks mentioned at the start of that sentence – in [...]