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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Hotels, Market Updates, Naples
Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Commercial property foreclosures were not in the glossary or knowledge of American people – until the devastation of mortgage crisis in residential real estate hit them hard. While a home is foreclosed only a family is denied of shelter under their head, but when a commercial property like a beach resort is foreclosed, it being [...]
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Market Updates
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
It needs no elaboration how the commercial property real estate got a beating and is still lingering on the downside. It all started in 2007, closely following the footsteps of the residential real estate going down the hill – courtesy mortgage crisis. The impact of the doom was so heavy, it reflected in the whole [...]
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Market Updates
Friday, October 15th, 2010
Woes suffered from the mortgage crisis are not yet over it seems, in the commercial real estate property market across the country. Yes – the year 2010 is not that bad as it was in 2008, since we are seeing more encouraging activity in the multi-family housing and industrial production for the last few months. [...]