Posted by Istvan Fekete
Hotels
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Troubles in the tourism business forced the owners of the landmark Hotel del Coronado to win a one month extension on a troubled $260 million mortgage. "The extension will allow all parties to continue negotiations toward a viable long-term restructuring; however, no assurances can be made that such a restructuring may be achieved. We remain [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Office Buildings
Monday, January 10th, 2011
A Marion County judge approved a lender’s request to foreclose on the four building office complex at Allisonville Road and East 86th Street. The owners of the complex, Blue Real Estate of Glendale, California, defaulted on a $22.6 million loan in June, the foreclosure lawsuit papers say The company bought the office complex back in [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Assisted Living, San Antonio
Friday, August 6th, 2010

Kisco Senior Living recently bought a seniors housing project in San Antoio at auction for less than half of the original cost, which was $37 million. Villa de San Antonio, the development purchased by Kisco, opened four years ago as a continuing care retirement community. It has 114 independent living units, 24 cottages and 55 [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Economic Updates
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Investors in business prospects, by nature always select the most profitable vehicle for their funds portfolio, so to get maximum return on investment. Commercial real estate investment, through real estate deals has been the favorite of institutional investors in U.S. – according to a latest survey. A new study on institutions taken up by J.P. [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Economic Updates
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

The ability of the United States to not only recover from her recessionary doldrums, but also her ability to combat inflation and at the same time maintain the integrity of the US financial system will remain key criteria for the US to maintain her status as world economic leader. These strong words come on the [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Retail
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Traditionally, the economic health of a society is measured by its gross domestic product (GDP), however when a recession needs to be defined the subject is far more fluid. Some contend that two consecutive quarters of negative growth in GDP reflect recession, but in more recent years economists have turned to an amalgam of indicators [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Economic Updates
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Many investors will be uneasy to realize that buildings and other structures on property will only depreciate with time. Much like the investment of a brand new motor vehicle, as soon as the new product is ready for consumption its value immediately plummets. Indeed, with commercial property its mere exposure to the elements will be [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Economic Updates
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The theory of a ‘flight to quality’ has been haunting the pages of economic text books since before Warren Buffet was a toddler, and it is now a well accepted routine reaction that markets display toward less than titillating news. Despite the US recessionary fears of 2008 that were said to lead the global recession, [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Hotels
Friday, April 9th, 2010

The foreclosure fiasco is engulfing the commercial property real estate – just like the residential properties – but on a larger scale and for different reason of chain reaction. If home owners are caught in the foreclosure tragedy, because of ballooning effect of mortgage interest in a downturn economy, in the case of commercial properties [...]
Posted by John Loup
Economic Updates
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
The distressed real estate market in the United States is fast becoming the much sought after destination for the foreign investors. And it can be said that many foreigners have already made great investments through the distressed properties in the U.S. as pointed out by a study conducted by the realtor professionals and fund managers. [...]