CBRE Group: Retail Space Availability Expected To Tighten Next Year
U.S. retail real estate will continue a slow, steady recovery in 2013, with the availability rate for neighborhood and community shopping centers declining...
DiamondRock Hospitality Enters San Francisco Market
DiamondRock Hospitality Co., a Bethesda, Md.-based real estate investment trust, has entered the San Francisco market with its $29.5 million acquisition of the...
MBA: Commercial, Multifamily Originations Down In Q3
Commercial and multifamily mortgage origination volumes during the third quarter were 7% lower than during the third quarter of 2011 and 17% lower...
Greystone And Bassuk Announce Joint Venture
Greystone, a national provider of multifamily and commercial mortgage loans, and The Bassuk Organization, a provider of real estate investment banking services to...
Annaly Seeks To Buy Outstanding Crexus Shares
Annaly Capital Management Inc., a New York-based real estate investment trust, has sent a proposal to the board of directors of Crexus Investment...
City National Bank Expands Bay Area Team
Los Angeles-headquartered City National Bank has added Charlie McGann and Deven Mays to its Bay Area real estate team. McGann (pictured top) was...
Trepp: October Balloon Payoffs At 60.7%
Last month, 60.7% of commercial real estate loans reaching their balloon date paid off, according to new data from Trepp LLC. Last month's...
Sabal Launches Commercial Real Estate Program
Newport Beach, Calif.-based Sabal Financial Group LP, a diversified financial services firm, has announced the launch of a commercial real estate lending program...
Freddie Mac: Multifamily To See 1.7M New Renters By 2015
The multifamily sector will see an additional 1.7 million new renter households between now and 2015, according to a new forecast released by...
Mountain Real Estate Capital Buys Forest City’s Land Portfolio
Charlotte, N.C.-based Mountain Real Estate Capital LLC has announced the acquisition of what it calls a 'significant portion of remaining land portfolio assets'...
Trepp: CMBS Delinquency Rate Plummets In October
Last month saw the single biggest drop the in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) delinquency rate in 14 months, according to new data...
LEED Exams To Be Offered In Spanish And Chinese
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced that the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Associate exam will be offered...
Construction Spending Up Slightly In September
The U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce has announced that construction spending during September was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual...
Chrysler Building Receives LEED Gold Certification
One of the most prominent landmarks of the New York City skyline has become the latest symbol of the green building movement. According...
Pebblebrook Acquires Fourth San Francisco Hotel
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, based in Bethesda, Md., has acquired its fourth San Francisco-based lodging destination with the $58 million purchase of the Hotel...
Office Sector Leads New U.S. CMBS Defaults
Fitch Ratings' cumulative default rate for fixed-rate U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) increased slightly to 13.5% during the third quarter, up from from...
Trade Groups Offer Multifamily Building Code Toolkits
The National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) and the National Apartment Association (NAA) released a new series of building code toolkits to help the...
Commerical Mortgage Returns Have Been Holding Steady
Private commercial mortgage loans held by life insurance companies posted a 1.56% total return in the second quarter of 2012, according to the...
USGBC Announces New Set Of Global ACPs
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced that a new set of Global Alternative Compliance Paths (ACPs) are now available for all...
U.S. CREL Delinquencies Remained Flat In September
Delinquencies on U.S. commercial real estate loan collateralized debt obligations delinquencies (CREL CDO) remained at 11.6% for the second straight month in September,...