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Commercial Real Estate Market Prospects Remain Dim

7 hours ago ago from Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Why This Real Estate Bust Is Different by Mara Der Hovanesian and Dean Foust But the Goldman deal, with its unrealistic assumptions, multiple layers of investors, and stratospheric prices, helps illustrate why this downturn is more complicated than previous ones—and will turn out to be far costlier. Already, prices have plunged 41% from the peak in 2007, according to Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Index—worse than the 30.5% fall ...

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Bennett Jones anticipates CRE recovery

17 hours ago ago from Vancouver Commercial Real Estate

Law firm Bennett Jones predicts commercial real estate activity will pick up in 2010. Toronto-based Bennett Jones, where former Bank of Canada head David Dodge, is now a senior adviser, issued comments on commercial real estate as part of a wide-ranging forecast on trends that will influence Canadian business in 2010. "With renewed access to the public markets and improved borrowing costs, watch for an increase in activity levels by ...

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BoyarMiller Forum Predicts Ongoing Pain in Commercial Real Estate for 2010 and Beyond

4 hours ago ago from The Midland 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Midland, TX

HOUSTON (BUSINESS WIRE) Houston's commercial real estate market, hammered by the credit squeeze, recession and plummeting natural gas and oil prices, isn't likely to see many bright spots if any in 2010 a panel of local experts predicted at BoyarMiller's real estate forecast. Continued slow demand, downward rent pressure and increasing concessions are expected. The gloomy picture painted by Houston Commercial Real Estate Markets: What's Ahead ...

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Commercial Real Estate Defaults

9 hours ago ago from HudPros.com

Image via Wikipedia Commercial real estate is suffering along with the residential real estate market although not as severe.  Here are a couple articles that give some insight on the situation. The Commercial Real Estate Default Wave is Here What has been lost in the housing talk recovery is the grim statistics that commercial real estate has fallen 37 percent in value in the last year. This wouldn’t be such a big problem ...

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Commercial Real Estate: Food for Thought

15 hours ago ago from Crossvault Capital Management

I have often asserted that if professional investors have identified a specific issue as a cause for the next financial crisis, it won't be.  Typically, the events or investments that cause market upheavals are unanticipated and/or unknown.  The lack of  forewarning is what causes market participants to panic, thereby creating swift and often severe downturns. Commercial real estate and its related problems is currently being viewed ...

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Real estate in your retirement portfolio

15 hours ago ago from CNN Money

Real estate in your retirement portfolio By Walter Updegrave , senior editor December 17, 2009: 5:53 AM ET (Money Magazine) -- Question: How do REITs work? And is it prudent to have them in a diversified retirement portfolio? --M. C., Indianapolis, Indiana Answer: After going from rock stars of the investing world during the real estate boom to candidates for a VH1 Where Are They Now episode the last two years, REITs are generating ...

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Savills Climbs After Upping Earnings Guidance - FOXBusiness.com

16 hours ago ago from FOX Business

Existing users please login User Name: Password: Remember me on this computer Home / Markets / Industries / Real Estate Thursday, December 17, 2009 Savills Climbs After Upping Earnings Guidance   By Steve Goldstein MarketWatch Pulse   LONDON -- ...

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Foreclosure backlog estimated at 1.7M

5 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Foreclosure backlog estimated at 1.7M WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 1.7 million homeowners were on the verge of foreclosure in the fall, a looming "shadow inventory" of homes that will be put up for sale in the coming years and weigh down prices, a report said Thursday. The number, up from 1.1 million a year earlier, is likely to keep rising through the middle of next year or later, said Mark Fleming, chief economist of First American CoreLogic, ...

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No Miami is an Island

14 hours ago ago from Rented Spaces

No man is an island, and, hopefully, Miami won't become an island, either. Those partial to belief in "sending good vibes" might want to send the climate change discussion at " Hopenhagen " an added dose of "hope." The Wall Street Journal reports that tempers flared Monday in Copenhagen at the United Nations Climate Conference. A collection of poorer countries known as the "Group of 77" walked out in protest over what they called inadequate ...

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