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Commercial Real Estate Markets poised for improvement in 2011 – NAR Report

Based on their tracking data from 59 major cities in U.S., the National Association of Realtors has come up with the relieving news for the heavily hit commercial real estate market which is reeling under pressure, to show improvements in fundamentals in 2011. And once the fundamentals are right, the end result of market recovery [...]

San Francisco market records lowest CMBS Retail Loan Delinquencies

Consequent upon the beleaguered commercial real estate market, there has been a wave of Commercial Market Based Securities (CMBS) Retail Loan Delinquencies in the past few years. The reason is consumer spending has shrunk; linked to depleted household income; again linked to growing unemployment – which has resulted adversely, in the commercial real estate market. [...]

Office rents appear to be leveling off – Report

In the commercial real estate market scenario, occupancy rate and rental rates play an important role in the office complexes. If they are steady and growing, invariably it will instill customer confidence for investment – the backbone of commercial real estate dealings, amounting to billions of dollars every year. As we know, for the last [...]

Banks have profited in billions – yet new commercial lending shrinks

Call it an irony – lending banks have made billions of profits this year; commercial real estate asset quality continues to improve nationwide; and yet additional lending for commercial properties is yet to take off, excepting multifamily sector. According to latest information provided by CoStar Group, lending activity continues at slightly declining levels for nonresidential [...]

Commercial Property investors eye on “core properties”

You know commercial property real estate dealings depend upon investors – more than private individuals – hedge funds and trusts like employees’ retirement funds, which are making prudent investments, to earn risk-free return and distribution of profits to their members. These funds are known as “core funds”. They are different from “opportunity” funds, which played [...]

Pain is easing in Commercial Real Estate – survey

You will be interested to know – latest statistics reports point towards a picture of slow but definite moderation of pain, presently suffered by commercial real estate business. First – the delinquency rate for securitized commercial real-estate loans have been reported to have fallen in the month of October; the first time we are hearing [...]

Commercial Property Sentiment Index remains flat in Q-4 – Survey

The commercial real estate property market is suffering from woes created by the weak economy, as we know it. In this context, the sentiment expressed by the real estate executives is the indicator, to gauge the trends and activity levels on a quarterly basis. The latest survey conducted by the Real Estate Roundtable, regarding outlook [...]

New construction of multi-family housing expected to increase

The construction industry as a whole, across the country is expected to get a shot in the arm by next year, according to the latest forecast. There are no different opinions about the bleak scenario prevailed in the real estate industry, both residential and commercial, in 2008 and 2009. But there are signs of rebound, [...]

Launch of first CMBS Deal by FIDC to sell off distressed property loans

Commercial real estate lending become so tough that it caused closing of innumerable banks in the last few years; and more banks collapsing, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is contemplating the new way inevitably, to bundle out the mortgages on hard-to-value commercial assets of these failed banks and sell them back to the private sector [...]

A World War II Era Multifamily Complex of San Francisco changes hands

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From the downturned commercial real estate property market for the last few years, one could not hear good news of purchase activity often. But with signs of market rebound appearing in the commercial property horizon, we are coming across such news from the media of late. The San Francisco Bay Area of California, one of [...]

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