Posted by Istvan Fekete
Office Buildings
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Baltimore’s Sun Life building went to a new owner – a Florida real estate company – for $4.5 million at a foreclosure auction on Thursday. This sale of of 20 S. Charles St. is marked to first downtown office tower to be sold at foreclosure auction in recent history. The sole bidder was BACM 2002-PB2 [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Hotels
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The Hagerstown Hotel and Convention Center foreclosure auction lasted about 3 minutes. Or more precisely until the Richard Hagerty read the legal notice and asked for final bids. There was only one bidder present: the company holding the promissory note on the property being sold for $2 million. VFC Partners 8 LLC placed its bid [...]
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
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
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
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 [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Florida, Miami, Mixed Use
Monday, October 25th, 2010

The developers of the Miami Worldcenter project just loss a $41.9 million judgement and they have to face the reality: the site they planned to build 12 million square feet of space will go to auction. The judgement was won by Fifth Third bank based on $39.5 million in mortgages covering most of the 25-acre [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Hotels, Miami
Monday, October 18th, 2010

LeBron James is making a splash in South Florida after joining the Miami Heat, but the Cavalier Hotel is going down. The lender, BDP Bank filed a foreclosure lawsuit against the property owner, Ocean Drive Investment, Cavalier Hotel and managing member Ralph Abravaya, the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court records show. The lawsuit papers talk about [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Office Buildings
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

The world’s tallest building, the Chicago Spire will become the property of the Irish government. The unfinished development is the property of the Irish developer Garrett Kelleher, who has out to build the Spire. The Anglo Irish Bank has filed a $77 million foreclosure suit against the developer. The work on the development stopped about [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Appartment Buildings
Monday, August 30th, 2010

A $28.7 million mortgage payment failure to Fannie Mae lead the Remy family to a foreclosure auction where all nine contested apartment buildings owned will be sold. The decisions by various judges in Tulsa County court began coming down last month and reached the final property Executive Series Apartments. There already foreclosed properties are: Executive [...]