Stories written by Amitesh
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Market Updates
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Market Updates
Friday, January 7th, 2011
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. [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Market Updates
Friday, December 17th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Market Updates
Monday, December 13th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Market Updates
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Market Updates
Friday, November 26th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Market Updates
Monday, November 15th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Appartment Buildings
Monday, November 8th, 2010
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, [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Financial Institutions, Government
Friday, November 5th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
San Francisco
Monday, November 1st, 2010

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 [...]