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March 2010
- AB2640 Seeks to Repeal 1031 Exchanges in California
- The Cleveland Fed Justifying Its Existence
- $46B in CMBS Balances Now Delinquent
- LeFrak and Flexner on CNBC
- Golden State Portfolio Hits The Market
- San Jose Update
February 2010
- Dimon: California Larger Risk Than Greece
- Bloom Energy
- Moodys' Commercial Property Price Index Increases 4.1% In December
- Record Breaking Land Site Headed Back to Bank
- Mountain View Considering Upping North Bayshore FAR
- Creditors Push For Auction of Whistler on Friday
- AvalonBay Resuming Apartment Construction
- 2010 Silicon Valley Index Released
- Premier Retail Location in Default
- Prudential Takes Back Torre Plaza
- Simon Property Group Going After General Growth
- Sheraton in Pleasanton Sold for $12.3M
- Congressional Oversight Panel Issues Report on CRE
- Faber: US Will Default
- Head of Apollo Predicts Bonanza in CRE
- Closing Up: Ritz Carlton Las Vegas Shutting Doors May 2nd
- The Good Old Days Are Back
- Investors Wary of Writing Blank Checks
- Green Street Advisors: CRE Prices Up 10%
- Banks Increasing CRE Lending; Bond Spreads To Widen
- Surprise Surprise: More Store Closings
- Align Technology Inks 129K SF Lease
- Panasonic Takes 50K in Cupertino
- S&P: Worst Yet To Come For Commercial Real Estate Loans
January 2010
- The Irony of Silicon Valley
- CRE Videos ... Sternlicht and More
- CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle on CNBC
- Prudential U.S. Quarterly Report
- Citigroup Unloading Real Estate Unit With Billions In Assets
- Transbay Joint Powers Closes on $171M Loan
- Layoffs Back: Verizon 13K, Sam's Club 11K
- A News Digest For Today
- Fear The Boom and Bust
- For Shame: S&P and Moody's Escape Lawsuit
- Bruce Mosler of C&W Optimistic
- Howard Marks of Oaktree on the Economy
- Moody's: CRE Prices Will Continue To Fall
- Wilbur Ross, LeFrak Interested in Stuyvesant Town
- CRE Values At Bottom?
- Receivers In Demand
- Simon "Agrees" to $2.25B Note Sale
- Tishman Walks on Stuy Town
- California Unemployment Rate Hovers at 12.4%
- Fitch: Life Insurers To Face More Losses
- Bair: Bank Charge Offs Related to CRE Higher in 2010
- Obama Has 10 Months
- Silicon Valley Apartment Rents Fall 11.5%
- EU Approves Oracle/Sun Micro Merger
- China Grows At 10.7% Year-Over-Year
- Rubicon US REIT Goes BK
- A Rant On Requirement Blasts
- McKinsey: CRE in Spain, US, UK at Highest Risk of Deleveraging
- Rosen on the Housing, Mortgage, and CRE Markets
- Laub: Commercial Real Estate Prices Close to "Bottom"
- Real Estate Receivers Explained
- Grubb & Ellis Q4 2009 Office Report
- Sam Zell on CNBC Discusses Housing and More
- S&P Cuts California Bond Ratings
- CPS Joining Cassidy Turley
- RREEF Marks Up 2009 Commercial Real Estate Outlook
- Symantec Sells Cupertino Buildings to Walton Street
- Positive Signs in Venture Capital
- Apartment Vacancy At 30-Year High; San Jose Leads Rent Declines
- Macklowe's Back as CMBS Delinquencies Continue To Rise
- Grubb & Ellis Releases Annual Forecast
- Uncertainty Looms in Investment Real Estate
- AIA Projects 13% Fall in Commercial Construction
- Retail Squeeze: Retail Assets Fall Into Distress
- Shake Up in Brokerage - BT Splits From NAI
- The Invisible Hand: 18% of Personal Income From Handouts
- Mervyn's 365K SF Fremont Warehouse Sold
- A "Bloodbath" In Silicon Valley
- Credit Suisse Being Sued For High Loan-To-Value Loan
- BAAQMD Seeking To Require Developers to Study Air Quality
December 2009
- Tribeca Forecloses on Lembi Buildings
- $30M For Circque De Soleil
- Giant On The Loose: UBS Seeking 800K SF in New York City
- WSJ on San Francisco Real Estate
- Harmonic Leases 188K SF in North San Jose
- Jon Kanas on 2010 Bank Outlook and CRE
- Investors Jostling for FDIC Assets
- Lembi's East Coast Counterparts Go Bust
- Studley Says...
- Cortina Systems' Sunnyvale Deal
- Moody's Commercial Property Price Index Falls Again
- 7 Banks Go Down Today; 2 In California
- Government Moving Into Help Finance Construction of Science Parks
- CBRE Selling State of California Buildings For .08% Fee
- Moffett Towers Lands Rambus For 125K SF
- 2010 Dropped As Target Date For Binding Climate Agreement
- Barry Sternlicht on Getting Started: Leverage!
- Life Insurers 2010 Losses Estimated at $10B
- Business Journal
- 4 New York Plaza Trading at $99/PSF with 15-Year Leaseback From JPM
- Mountain View Increases Density on County Land; Sale Will Be Attempted Again
- More News About Morgan Stanley's SF Woes
- Commercial Real Estate Videos
- Gulf States Takes Steps Toward Unified Currency
- Facebook Expands in Palo Alto; Subleases 265K Square Feet
- Fairfield Files Chapter 11; San Jose Projects In Limbo
- State of California Offloading Buildings To Fill Budget Shortfalls - What A Disaster
- CMBS Delinquency Rate Continues To Rise; Inland Western Issues $500M CMBS Deal
- Lembi Fallout Hitting Tamalpais Bank Hard
- Morgan Stanley Handing Back 1.2M Square Feet of SF Assets
- Pershing Square on The Outlook For Mall REITS
- TARP Extended To October 2010
- Bloomberg CRE Videos: Delinquencies and Impact on GE
- Meredith Whitney Back on CNBC
- Simon Property Group Snaps Up Prime Outlets For $2.3B
- Legislative Update: Congress Looking To Raise Carried Interest Tax
- ProLogis and AMB Present at Goldman Conference
- San Francisco Magazine Covers The Lembi Fallout
- Tishman Completes 550 Terry Francois Sale to GLL
- Tim Geithner on CNBC - Deficits Down in 2011
- Banks Not Even Half Way Through CRE Writedowns
- Clock Ticking For Morgan Stanley Fund V
- Chinese News Covers Tiger Incident
- Donald Trump on CNBC
- Wilbur Ross, Sam Zell, Richard LeFrak on CNBC - The Billionaire's Roundtable
- 101 Wachovia Branches To Close in California
- Pirates, Meet Wall Street
- Top 10 Most Expensive Office Markets
November 2009
- Dubai World Strategically Defaults
- CalPERS Considers Showing Blackrock The Door
- Tax Implications of Loan Forgiveness
- RREEF Q3 2009 Property Performance Monitor
- Property Tax Appeals: The Impact on Government, Landlord, and Tenants
- The $9B Check
- Heading North - CA Unemployment Up To 12.5%; Santa Clara County 11.9%
- Crescent Down, San Francisco EOP Assets To Go
- Round Trip For 17M SF of Property as Morgan Stanley Hands Back The Keys
- Announcement: The Square Feet Blog Holiday Mixer
- HNN Compiling List of Funds Targeting Hotels
- Sam Zell Tells Wilbur Ross To Piss Off
- Oversubscribed DDR CMBS Deal Prompts Bank of America To Prepare $460M Fortress Deal
- Commercial Real Estate Will Collapse!
- 3-Month Treasury Bill Yields Turn Negative
- Starwood Properties' Barry Sternlicht on CNBC
- 1 in 6 FHA Loans Delinquent
- Damn The Bargains - High End Office Demand Opens Up
- Housing Market Not As Healthy As Low End Would Suggest
- Citibank Forced to Resume Lending on Failed Mall Project
- Non-Judicial Foreclosure Not Good Enough For Bank of America
- FDIC Property Sales Approaching 90's Levels
- Efforts To Raise Commercial Property Taxes Gaining
- Pontiac Silverdome Sells for a Whopping $583K
- Apple To Open 40 to 50 New Stores - More Than Half Internationally
- Meredith Whitney on CNBC - Liquidity Problems and Double Dip Ahead
- Huge NASA Academic Development Deal Goes To TMG and Related
- "The Tower Wobbles" - On Top Of Burj Dubai
- DDR Issue Signals Slow Return of CMBS Market
- CPS 3rd Quarter Update and Thoughts on Leasing Activity
- How You Keep the 8% Growth Going
- ULI Fall Meeting Overview in 60 Seconds
- CRE Dominoes: 8000 Marina Blvd Defaults
- Video: LeFrak on Commercial Real Estate
- Sam Zell Optimistic on Economy
- HP Buys 3Com, SEC Has No Comment
- Harris Stratex Takes Down 128K In Santa Clara
- Larry Fink of Blackrock on Commercial Real Estate
- Chairman of AREA (Apollo) William Mack on CNBC
- CalPERS Takes Huge Hit to RE Portfolio
- CalSTRS Taking Steps to Reduce Risk
- Banks Quick to Adopt New FDIC Guidelines
- County Planning On Buying, Flipping Out Former San Jose Hospital Site
- Manhattan Rents Decline 6-9% Year-Over-Year
- Applied Materials May Cut Up To 15% of Workforce
- Adobe Cuts 680 - 9% of Workforce
- Commercial Real Estate Lending Remains Tight
- Adobe Reportedly Laying Off 15%
- Weakness In Apartments; San Jose Rent Falls Most
- Electronic Arts To Slash 1500 Jobs
- Management Fees Down; Hurdle Rates Up
- Calling Gordon Gekko
- Stuyvestant Town's $3B Loan Goes to Special Servicing
- United Commercial Bank Goes Down
- 4280 Hacienda in Pleasanton In Default
- Commercial Real Estate Bust Makes BusinessWeek Cover
- US Unemployment Breaches 10%
- Who Are The Largest Firms Investing Internationally For US Clients? Here's The Top 10
- 2010 Will Be A "Bloodbath", But Keep Reading
- Commercial Lending Down 54%
- Dr. Doom on CNBC: Carry Trade, Asset Bubbles, and Housing
- Fannie Mae To Become Landlord By Renting Back Homes
- Unemployment Benefits and Homebuyer Tax Credit Extended
- Juniper Networks Renews 425K SF Headquarters Lease
- PIMCO: House Prices Yet To Bottom
- Bankers Head to Church!
- Recession Hits The Upper East Side
- CRE: 90's Then And Now Part Three
- AMB Property's Hamid Moghadam on Bloomberg
- Wilbur Ross On CNBC
- 10% of Commercial Sales To Owner-Users In First Half of 2009
- Nokia Siemens Laying off 4,500 to 5,700
- MIT TBI Shows 4.4% Quarterly Jump
- Johnson & Johnson to Cut 8500 Globally
- Prudential CRE US Quarterly Update
- Real Estate Roundtable Q4 Sentiment Index: Better But Not Good
- FDIC Adopts Policy Statement on CRE Loans to Help Banks
- Roubini on the Carry Trade
October 2009
- CRE Dominoes: FDIC Takes Over Three California Banks
- Yahoo's New 3M SF Campus
- And Now Wilbur Ross on Commercial Real Estate...
- WSJ Roundup: Blackstone, Germans, and a Tenant's Market
- George Soros: CRE Bloodletting To Come
- RICS on Global Real Estate
- Solyndra Leases 500,000 SF in Fremont
- CBRE Earnings Off 70% YoY; Revenue Per Transaction Flattening Out
- Golden Gate Fields Set For Auction In Early 2010
- Jeremy Grantham on Equities
- Bill Gross's Investment Outlook
- That Didn't Take Long: Stuy Town Case Being Used as Precedent
- Watergate Towers Update
- Nearly 20% of Construction Debt is Delinquent
- Next Wave of Stress Tests To Focus on CRE
- CRE Dominoes: Capmark Hitting The Fan
- $4.50 NNN? You Must Be Joking
- Failed Bank Timeline
- New Basis, New Rents
- MacFarlane Quits CalPERS; Stockbridge In
- CEO of Prologis on CNBC
- Laugh or Cry? 4-Year Old Buys A House
- Tishman Loses Stuyvesant Town Ruling
- Who Do Foreigners Give Their Money To When Investing In US Real Estate? Here's The Top 10
- RREEF Outsources Retail Property Management
- CRE Shoe Next NOT To Drop?
- Update on Morgan Stanley and Crescent Real Estate Deal
- Silicon Valley Apartment Rents Down
- Construction Costs Steadying - Uptick Expected
- Sun Micro Cutting 3,000 More Jobs
- RREEF, RREEF, and RREEF
- Moody's Commercial Property Price Index Continues Fall - Down 40% From Peak
- DemandTec Takes Down 82,000 SF in San Mateo
- Gramercy Capital Sells Cupetino Square For $60M
- FBI Requirement Off
- When Nobody Else Will Lend, Where Do You Go? Taxpayers
- Government Sachs Exec To SEC Enforcement Post
- Dear Business Journal: Drop The Annoying Ads
- How A Zoning Change Turned Into a Debate About Healthcare
- Tishman in Contract to Sell 550 Terry Francois
- 63% Off In Santa Ana - Tishman Unloads Office Building
- CRE Dominoes: Stuyvesant Town About To Go
- Morgan Stanley to Take Hit on Crescent
- The Seven New Mortgage Laws
- An Apartment Comp in Millbrae
- Hawaii Uh-Oh: Hotels in Trouble
- Stanford Reportedly Dumping Brand Name Investments
- Carl Icahn Bearish on REITs, Sees Risk of Double Dip
- Friday Tidbits: Goldman, AIG, Private Equity
- NewsHour Report on NY Commercial Real Estate
- Apartment Investors Out In Full Force
- Sunnyvale Town Center Goes Into Receivership
- US Retail Vacancies Zoom to 17 Year High
- New FHA Rules Make Life Tough For Condo Sellers
- Mervyn's HQ Being Sold
- US Office Vacancy At 5-Year High; Rents Plummet
- Fed Concerns About Commercial Real Estate Grow
- Starwood Gets Corus; Pays 60 Cents on the Dollar
- Plotting Against the US Dollar
- Steven Roth of Vornado on CNBC
- Robert Reich on Jobs
- On What Basis?
- Starwood Reportedly Winner of Corus Bank Assets
- San Mateo Looking to Mandate Green TI's
- Unemployment and Deflation
- Commercial Maturities Update from First American CoreLogic
- RREEF and Snell Default on Torre Plaza in Cupertino
- Fremont Marriott In Default
- Q3 2009 Update: Silicon Valley Rents, Vacancy Rate, and Unemployment Numbers
September 2009
- Goldman Revises CRE Loss Estimates
- Wall Street Displays Its REMIC Magic
- GI Partners Targeting Hotels
- Q3 Manhattan Rents Drop 5%
- Deflation Fears Emerge
- Downturn Presents Once (or Twice) In A Lifetime Opportunities
- Tax Credits and The Law of Unintended Consequences
- Britannia R&D Park Picked Up for $38 PSF
- YoY Local Transaction Volumes
- Downturn Hits GE's CRE Unit
- Prudential on Life After Debt and The Funding Gap
- Luxury Hotels at Risk - Bloomberg Video
- News From Around San Jose
- Tamalpais Bank in Hot Water
- Using The MIT TBI Supply and Demand Index To Time The Market
- Dan Tishman on CNBC - CRE Second Shoe To Drop
- RREEF Outsources Property Management to CBRE, Transwestern
- California Unemployment Up To 12.2%
- Davidovitz: Don't Be Fooled
- Neiman Marcus's Walnut Creek Approvals Repealed
- Thoughts on Increased M&A Activity
- Sunstone Checking Out of Another Hotel
- Treasury Reworking Tax Rules to Help Dampen Commercial Real Estate Fallout
- Commercial Real Estate Recession To Keep Going
- Applied Puts Up For Sale 30-Acre Santa Clara Site
- Far From Being Out of The Woods
- Commercial/Multi-Family Delinquency Rates Continue Hike Up
- JP Morgan Unloads Seattle's Chase Center For $115M
- Palo Alto Mulls Extending Entitlements
- Distressed Commercial Real Estate Report
- Commercial Real Estate Crisis
- AB1103 Takes Effect Soon - Requires Energy Rating Disclosures
- RREEF America III Overview
- Chinese Sovereign Wealth Funds Look to US
- Hammer Dropping on Sunnyvale Town Center
- FDIC's Sheila Bair on Commercial Real Estate
- Study Predicts Flat Job Market
August 2009
- Commercial Real Estate Worries Grow
- New Marketing Gimmick For CRE?
- WOW
- REIS vs. JLL - Who Will Be Right?
- NAILED: Sunnyvale Town Center
- Toyota Announces Decision to Shut Down Fremont NUMMI Plant
- Massive Bank Failures Projected Over Next Two Years
- New Owners Squeeze Market
- Fixing The Fundamental Problem
- China Commercial Property Sales Exceed US, UK
- More Good News From Tishman
- Tishman Speyer Office Fund Values Off 33.5% YoY; Renegotiates Debt
- NAR August 2009 Commercial Real Estate Outlook
- Office Market Expected to Continue Downward
- August 2009 RREEF Property Cycle Monitor
- Retail Woes Push Vacancy Rates Up
- On The Verge Of Recovery
- Stockbridge Seeking Deal To Takeover Fund That Acquired Peery/Arrillaga Portfolio
- CalPERS Taking A Walk In Portland
- TALF Extended Into 2010
- Unemployment Driving More Foreclosures Than Subprime
- Moody's Commercial Property Price Index August Update
- Manhattan Deal Volume Scarce; Cap Rates In The 7's
- Tesla Motors Takes Down 350K SF in Palo Alto's Stanford Research Park
- Hines to Raise $3.5B in IPO
- SF Fed Real Estate Lending Update
- Off Topic: Jet Blue Offers $599 All You Can Fly
- Retail Comp in Burlingame
- Keys Being Handed Back to Lenders on Southern California Portfolio
- JP Morgan Looking to Unload 7M SF of Office Properties
- Starwood Capital To Raise Up to $800M in IPO
- CMBS Delinquency Forecast At 5%+ By End of Year
- 7.2% Cap Rate on Union Square Retail
July 2009
- Bordeaux Centre Taken By Lender
- Arizona Looking To Sell State Buildings
- $2.2T of US CRE At Risk of Default
- Hines and Sterling American Forfeit 333 Bush
- RREEF Portfolio Under Distress
- Bank of America Moving to Cut Branch Network
- 94% Off In Miami
- Downward Spiral in Commercial Real Estate Prices Continues
- Forced Withholding on Contractors Defeated....So Far
- Opus West To File Chapter 11; Opus East Chapter 7
June 2009
- Oppose Forced Withholding on Independent Contractors
- Trouble in North San Jose For Tishman Speyer
- Goldman Sachs Is The Devil
- East Meets West
- Gramercy Capital Takes Control of Cupertino Square
- Mountain View Deal Highlights Trauma in Land Values
- Realpoint CMBS June Update - 2.275% Delinquency In May
- Warren Buffett on CNBC
- 1031 Funds At LandAmerica Included as Part of Bankruptcy
- Sign Of The Times At Santana Row
- Got Tenant Risk? Madison Marquette Tracks Retail Tenants
- Decline Continues in Moody's/REAL Commercial Real Estate Index: April Down 8.6%
- More Signs of Trouble in San Francisco
- 90-Day Foreclosure Moratorium Kicks In Tomorrow
- CBRE: There Are Virtually No Real AAA Bonds
- How Not To Smuggle $134B Worth of US Bonds
- Outfoxing The Fox
- Honeymoon Period Over For Interest Only Commercial Mortgages
- AIG Selling 1.4M SF HQ For Under $100 PSF
- Done Shopping: RREEF On Retail Real Estate Investing
- Spear Street Picks Up Murphy Ranch Tech Park
- Opus West Bankruptcy Looming
- Sunnyvale R&D Rents Were $6 to $7 ???
- Sony Renews With Equity Office For Foster City Office
- TALF Eligible CMBS Could Shrink Dramatically
- Bloomberg Interviews NY CBRE Broker
- Hotel Owners Losing Their Grip
- MySpace/Fox Interactive Highlights Trend
- Intel Acquiring Alameda and Sunnyvale-Based Wind River Systems
- LinkedIn Bucking The Trend and On The Prowl
- Speaking of Colony Capital; Tom Barrack on Transitioning
- Colony Capital Going After Corus Bankshares
- Visual Representation of The Market Recovery
- Uncertainty Killing The Recovery in CMBS
- Apple's $1B Data Center
- EMC Makes Bid For Santa Clara's Data Domain
May 2009
- Grubb & Ellis Posts $41.5 Million Loss; Renegotiates Debt
- High End Sales Dropping Fast; Tiffany Q1 Sales Off 31%; Profit Off 62%
- Starbucks Seeking Rent Reductions
- Getting Warmer: EOP Drops Redwood Shores Rents Again
- Roubini's RGE Monitor on Real Estate
- IRS Revenue Down 34% YoY
- Subleases Now Account For 40% of Midtown Manhattan Office Space
- Paul Krugman on California and Proposition 13
- Tishman Looking to Sell 550 Terry Francois
- Fowler in Trouble in Scotts Valley
- S&P on Insurers and CRE
- The Trillion Dollar Storm
- Equastone Drops 1331 California Circle
- Better Start Printing New Business Cards
- Lobbying Congress For Help
- CBO: US Unemployment to Continue to Rise Through 2010
- Debt Outlook for UK Turns Negative; US Next?
- FDIC Hinting At Forcing Banks To Sell Assets
- $100B of Losses at Local Banks
- Fallout From The Bailout
- Schwarzenegger To Propose Sale of San Quentin, Agnews
- London Update: Rents to 1991 Levels; Vacancy Expected to 19%
- GM, Chrysler To Slash Dealers By 2,000
- Nervously Watching Delinquencies
- MIT Releases Q1 TBI Numbers; Index Drops 5.8%
- Sunnyvale City Center In Trouble - Developer Wants To Convert to Public-Private Partnership!
- Chrysler to Cut 800 Dealers
- IBM's Office of the Future
- Distressed Debt Moving Online
- Deutsche Bank Q1 CRE Outlook
- More Delinquency Data; This Time on Construction Loans
- YoY Rate of Commercial Delinquencies Up 5x
- Goodwin Proctor on TALF/PPIP
April 2009
- Housing Market Gone Wild
- Sam Zell Discusses Real Estate
- Prudential First Quarter CRE Report
- Fitch: Commercial Defaults to 4% by EOY 2010
- The Decline Continues: Q1 2009 NCREIF NPI Numbers Released
- Detached From Reality
- Opus South Files Chapter 11 BK
- Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Index Declines Continue
- Awfully Quiet in Downtown San Jose
- Yahoo! To Cut 700 More
- Geithner: $110B Left; IMF: $875B Needed
- Macklowe Losing Another Building
- Oracle to Acquire Sun Microsystems
- One Rincon In Trouble
- Fitzpatrick Chevrolet Hummer in Concord to Close Next Month
- California Unemployment Up to 11.2%; Silicon Valley At 11% (!)
- Fallout
- They're Coming: Commercial Foreclosures Gaining Steam
- Stanford Shelves Shopping Center Expansion Plans
- General Growth Finally Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- An Interesting Strategy To Reduce Rent
- Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization Declines
- Consumer Price Index (CPI) Falls 0.4% in March
- Z Gallerie Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; Exposes Lifestyle Center Risks
- Trouble in San Diego for Jay Paul Company
- Portland Project Stopped; Highlights Financing Difficulties
- Vision North San Jose On Shaky Ground
- Not A Good Comp For Regency
- Nortel Fire Sale to Nokia, Avaya, Siemens
- Pulte Homes to Acquire Centex in $1.3B Deal
- Surprise: San Francisco Office Rents Are Falling
- Some Research Reports Crack Me Up
- Real Estate Industry Wants Expanded TALF Program
- Hunter Storm and Wolff Get $43M Discount From City of San Jose
- 10 Months Later, Regency Flipping Out East Palo Alto Project
- $2 Million For the Knight Ridder Sign?
- Flood of CMBS Rating Cuts Coming
- Cupertino Square Bankruptcy
- One of the Best on CNBC
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Lift Foreclosure Moratorium
- $2B London Loan On Deck; Default Likely
- MBS, CMBS, RMBS and ABS Spreads Update
- United States vs. The World In Charts
- Unemployment Numbers Released: 8.5% For March
- U.S. Office and Retail Vacancy Continues Its Ascent
- Commercial Real Estate Defaults Rise By 43% In First Quarter
- Yes, Even Sand Hill Is Not Immune
- The Crisis in Venture Capital Continues
- Silicon Graphics Files Chapter 11 BK, Sells To Rackable Systems
March 2009
- Hancock Tower Fetches $660M At Auction; Normandy and Five Mile Winners
- KLA-Tencor Announces Layoffs; 10% of Workforce
- John Hancock Tower To Be Sold Tomorrow At Auction
- Agilent To Cut Another 2700 Jobs
- Government Out of Control: California Considering Banning Black Cars
- Google, IBM Cut Jobs; Legal Cuts Continue
- Canary Wharf Owner's Teetering on Default
- CRE Crisis To Eclipse Early 90's
- UCLA Anderson Forecast Predicting 11.9% California Unemployment
- Operation Print Money Kicks Off Today
- US Capacity Utilization and Industrial Production Still Falling
- CBRE Gets Reprieve as Lender's Modify Loan Terms
- Silicon Valley Rent, Vacancy, and Unemployment
- China Calling For New Reserve Currency
- Year End Forecast: 27.5% Vacancy, Rents Down by 23.5%
- Pier 1 To Shut Up To Eighty Stores
- Banks Bracing For CRE Defaults
- Treasury Department Releases Details on Its Plan to Buy Bank Assets
- Lawmaker Proposes Sale of San Quentin Prison
- Cap Rates Still Hiking According to CoStar and Korpacz Survey
- Lender Moving In On Hayward's Southland Mall
- Only One Lease For 520SF Signed in Shadelands (Walnut Creek)
- Solyndra Gets a Boost With $535M Govt Loan
- Silicon Valley Unemployment Hits Double Digits; California at 10.5%
- London Comp Shows 46% 2-Year Decline; Santa Clara Parallel
- Moody's Commercial Property Price Index Posts Large Declines
- Volume Up (Thanks to Foreclosures); Median Prices Down For Bay Area Residential Real Estate
- IBM In Talks To Acquire Sun Microsystems
- Nailed: Italian Developer About To Lose Its Shirt
- Symantec Taking Down Whisman Campus
- General Growth Properties To File For Bankruptcy "Soon"
- Obama Raising Small Business Administration Loan Guarantees
- Tenant Power: Sears Tower to Be Renamed to Willis Tower
- Weekend Roundup
- Berryessa, and Not Downtown Might Be End of The Line For BART
- Tenant Concerns About Landlords Sweeping The Market
- Jon Stewart Interviews Jim Cramer on Daily Show
- San Francisco's Bong Su Latest Victim; Restaurants Hit Hard
- Government Moving Towards Bailout of Commercial Real Estate
- Schwab Putting 375,000 SF for Sublease in San Francisco
- Distress at Equastone LLC; Trouble in Milpitas, San Antonio, and Georgia
- EOP Cuts Redwood Shores Office Rents Again
- US Unemployment Jumps From 7.6% to 8.1%
- Do Over For San Francisco Metreon
- Symantec Ditching Cupertino?
- Go Home
- Virgin Megastore in San Francisco To Close
- Tenants Concerned About Landlord Financials
- Office Furniture Orders Down 25% Year-Over-Year
- FDIC: Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year
- Blockbuster Exploring Bankruptcy?
- Obama Proposes Taxing Carried Interests (Promotes) as Ordinary Income
February 2009
- 30% of iStar Financial's Loans are Non-Performing
- UK World's Largest Ponzi Scheme
- Cisco Begins "Layoffs" At San Jose Campus
- JPMorgan To Cut 12,000 From Washington Mutual
- January Unemployment Shoots to 10.1% in California
- Proposition 13, Property Taxes, and Tenants
- Capital Gains Tax Hikes Loom; Proposition 13 Tax At Risk
- Moody's Estimates Losses on 2006 Sub-Prime MBS Debt (Residential) At 28-32 Percent
- Superior Toyota of Oakland and Superior Nissan of Fremont Shut Doors
- Nortel Cuts 3200 More; Santa Clara Vacancy At Risk
- Z Gallerie Closing Third of Stores
- San Francisco Chronicle To Be Sold or Shut Down
- Oakland A's Drop Fremont
- Commercial Real Estate Delinquency Rate Doubles
- Ritz Camera Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Oracle Tower Going Sony?
- 220,000 Stores To Close In 2009
- CNBC Classic: The Call For A 21st Century Tea Party
- U.S. Office Vacancy Rate Set To Soar
- The WSJ on CB Richard Ellis and Its Debt
- Mezz Debt Loses Its Luster
- Shake-Up at Grubb & Ellis San Jose
- Government Unveils Its Plan For Housing
- Frontline Special: "Inside The Meltdown" Now Available Online
- GM To Cut 47,000 Jobs; Chrysler 3,000
- Flashback: 450 Park Avenue
- Another Ponzi Scheme: Stanford Charged With $8B Fraud By SEC
- Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network Releases 2009 Silicon Valley Index
- 20,000 California State Jobs At Risk
- Frontline Special To Air Tomorrow: Inside The Meltdown
- Japan's Economy Shrinks by Annualized Rate of 12.7%
- Best Buy to Close Downtown Palo Alto Magnolia Store; 2 Others
- Larkspur Landing Financing Revealed
- 365,000 SF Former Mervyn's Distribution Facility in Fremont For Sale or Lease
- CBRE's Raymond Torto Predicts Two More Years of "Serious Problems"
- JP Morgan and Citibank to Halt New Foreclosures
- Law Firm Layoffs Accelerate
- Yahoo!, Silicon Storage, Marvell, Opvista Layoffs
- January 2009 California Residential Foreclosure Numbers
- Network Appliance Cutting 500 Jobs
- 4 More Bay Area Dealerships Close
- Commercial Real Estate REO Broker's Association Scam
- CBRE Profit Off By 94%; Likely To Ask To Restructure Loans
- More Defections at Grubb & Ellis Indicate Trouble
- ProLogis Coming To Market With Huge Portfolio; 2-3M SF in SF Bay Area
- Government Expands Financial Stability Act to Include CMBS
- Boston's John Hancock Tower To Be Auctioned Off March 31
- Dr. Doom on CNBC
- Black Eye For Marcus and Millichap
- RBS: Bank Failures May Reach 1,000 on Bad Commercial Loans
- Fallout from Blackstone/Equity Office Deal
- Boston Properties Halts Construction on $1B NYC Tower
- Mortgage Modification Talk Swirling
- MadisonMarquette's Distressed Retail Real Estate Index
- Cisco Systems "Realigns" 2000-3000 Employees
- CMBS Ratings Being Reviewed - It's a Slippery Slope
- Allen Matkins/UCLA California Office Forecast
- MIT Commercial Property Index Records Largest Quarterly Drop In Its History
- BRE Properties Drops San Jose Apartment Site and More
- Dan Tishman from Tishman Construction on CNBC
- Electronic Arts Cuts 1100; Panasonic 15,000
- Cupertino Square Bankruptcy Update
- NCREIF 4th Quarter 2008 Snapshot
- As Santa Clara Class A Vacancy Soars EOP Drops Prices at Mission Towers I
- Growth of Target, Visualized
- Top 10 Bay Area CMBS Deals on RealPoint Watchlist
- Cupertino Approves Main Street Project
- New Feature: Community News
- San Francisco's Largest Apartment Owner Loses 51 Buildings To Lender
January 2009
- Two East Bay Hotels Default on Mortgages
- REITs Issuing Stock Dividends In Lieu of Cash
- NEC, Hitachi Announce Layoffs
- Tesla Deal Dead, For Now
- Gilead Completes Purchase of Foster City Buildings and Land
- Developer Lands Safeway For Tower 88 Project in San Jose
- Starbucks Slashing 6700 Jobs; Closing 300 More Stores
- RCA Data on Distressed and Troubled Assets
- Sperry Van Ness To Close Southern California Offices
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Cuts Lawyers and Staff
- RREEF Marks Up 2008 Commercial Real Estate Outlook
- Square Feet on Twitter
- It's Official: Yahoo! Vacating Mission College Campus
- AMB Lays off 22%
- Layoff Announcements; Expo San Jose Store Closing
- California Unemployment Rate Skyrockets From 8.4 to 9.3% in One Month
- Yahoo! Set To Introduce 385,000 SF of Vacancy to Santa Clara
- Forbes List of At-Risk Retailers; Costar Retail Closing Data
- Bank Market Caps Implode
- Infighting Amongst Hancock Tower Debt Holders
- Moody's Commercial Property Price Index Drops 3.4% in November
- Equity Office Drops Redwood Shores Rents; Highlights Trend
- Brokerages Announce "Troubled Assets Units"
- Larkspur Landing Shopping Center Sold for $65M
- United States Capacity Utilization and Industrial Production
- San Francisco Consumer Price Index (CPI) - December 2008 Update
- Circuit City To Liquidate Remaining Stores
- AMB Property on Conan O'Brien
- Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Says Worst of Crisis Yet to Come
- Marketwatch Story on Oracle Building at 488 Almaden; Oracle Layoffs Announced
- Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave Until End of June
- California Residential Property Foreclosure Rate Update
- Nortel Files For Bankruptcy Protection
- First Signs of Cracking: Broadway Partners Defaults on Hancock Tower
- Google Cuts Temporary Staff; ValleyWag Estimates Up To 6,000
- Bill Halford of Bixby Land Company: Wait
- Michael Lewis and David Einhorn Discuss Finance in NYT
- Thomas Barrack on Commercial Real Estate
December 2008
- Grubb & Ellis President on Fox News Discussing a Commercial Real Estate Bailout
- The Tale of Washington Mutual: Suprised?
- Circuit City's Auction Cancellation Bad News For Landlords
- Growth of Walmart, Visualized
- San Francisco Consumer Price Index (CPI) Update
- Brocade Gets $4M To Stay in San Jose, But I Smell a Fish
- Now Commercial Real Estate Developers Want A Bailout
- Unemployment Rate Update
- Can The Federal Reserve Deny Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA) Requests on the Basis of It Not Being a Government Entity?
- Time To Usher In a New Term: The Madoff Scheme
- Bank of America Announces Job Cuts; 35,000 Over Next 3 Years
- Avaya Brings Online 140,000 Square Feet of R&D and Office Space For Sublease in Milpitas
- Treasury Yields Create Defeasance and Yield Maintenance Nightmare
- Yahoo Layoffs Begin; Estimated 1500 To Lose Jobs This Round
- Google Puts An Additional 128,000 Square Feet Up For Sublease In Mountain View
- The Bailout and The Big 3
- Fremont-Based Mattson Technology Announces Layoffs
- Equities, Real Estate, and Deflation
- If New York is a Leading Indicator...
- Sony, Novellus Announce Layoffs
- RREEF Updates Economic Forecast Map
- 533K Layoffs Nationwide in November; California, Silicon Valley Unemployment Rate Update
- Oakland A's Consider Ballpark Location on East Side of 880
- NVIDIA Gets Go Ahead to Build 2M SF Campus in Santa Clara
- Adobe to Cut 600; Yahoo Layoffs Next Week
- Square Feet Lives On; Pictures from Dubai
- Daily News Stunt Shows How Easy It Is To Steal Property
November 2008
- National Semiconductor, Applied Materials Announce Layoffs
- Cisco Announces Hiring Freeze; Plans $1B Cost Cuts
- Postal Service Considering Layoffs; First Time in History
- DHL Killing US Ops; Bad News For ProLogis
- Nortel Announces Plans to Terminate 1300 Jobs
- Circuit City Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Pinches Local Companies
- McDermott Will & Emery to Take Over Former Heller Ehrman Space at 275 Middlefield Road
- The 88 Condos in San Jose Revises Pricing
- Unemployment Rate Darts to 6.5%; Up 40BP from September
- Significant Rate Cuts Across Europe; Oil Below $65; LIBOR Plunges to 4-Year Low
- September 2008 Unemployment Numbers
- Silicon Valley Layoff Announcements
- Measure V and Measure W in Redwood City Fail to Pass
- Obama Wins: Pictures From Around the World
- Google Scraps Yahoo Partnership
- Prop 1A - High Speed Rail Measure Set to Pass
- Layoffs at Dash Navigation of Sunnyvale
- Generic Office Tenant Improvement (TI) Construction Costs
- Delinquency Rates on Construction Loans in Double Digits
- Circuit City Announces 155-Store Closure; Palo Alto and Fremont Stores Included
- Symantec Announces Layoffs; 5% Cut Expected
October 2008
- Tesla Motors Needs a Charge; No FDIC Insurance
- Electronic Arts and Motorola Announce Layoffs
- San Francisco Residential Projects On Hold
- Thelen Reid & Priest Chooses to Dissolve; Landlords Wondering Who's Next?
- Thelen Reid & Priest Dissolution Vote Expected; 175,000 Square Feet of Office Space On Deck
- WSJ Article Illustrates Office Space Demand Weakness
- Notes From the ProLogis Earnings Call
- Nokia in the Market with a 150K+ Square Foot Requirement
- Google Puts 225,000 Square Feet of Palo Alto Office Space on the Market for Sublease... Again
- Gilead Sciences Acquiring Office Building and 30 Acres of Land in Foster City from EFI for $138M
- A New Look and an Invitation to Comment
- Yahoo! To Axe 1500 Employees By Year-End; Consolidate Facilities
- Broadway Partners Deal to Sell One Sansome to Mirae Falls Apart
- Mervyn's to Liquidate and Close; 3000 Northern California Employees Affected
- Valley Startups Tightening Their Belts; Layoffs Gaining Steam
- Cupertino Mixed-Use Project to Go Before Planning Commission
- Broadway Partners Runs Into Trouble - San Francisco Holdings On The Table?
- Academia Expected to Partner with NASA For New Campus at Moffett Field
- Harmonic in the Market for 150-200K Square Feet in Sunnyvale
- Heller Ehrman Office Space in Menlo Park Hits the Market
- Cupertino Square Hires New Leasing Team to Help Save Itself
- Blitzkrieg on Interest Rates as US, ECB, Sweden, Switzerland, China, UK Cut Rates
- Mellanox Takes Down 26K SF in Sunnyvale
- EBay Announces Layoffs - 10% or 1,000 Employees To Go
- General Growth on the Chopping Block?
- SF Chronicle Article Today On San Francisco Office Space Market
- August 2008 Federal, California, and Silicon Valley Unemployment Numbers
- GE To Cut Real Estate Portfolio by More Than 10% Next Year
- San Jose Condos Going Rental
- Amazing Sunnyvale - TMG and Principal Moving Forward to Bring Another 100K SF of Office Online
- AIG, The Bailout, and Legacy Partners
September 2008
- Noted San Francisco Law Firm Heller Ehrman to Dissolve; Vacate 300K SF Locally
- House Defeats Bailout
- How Things Change So Quickly; Wachovia Goes to Citi
- Sobrato-Oracle Building at 488 Almaden To Go Full Circle?
- JP Morgan to Acquire Washington Mutual Assets
- Quadrus Office Project on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park Up For Grabs
- Bailout Proposal Nothing More than a Patriot Act II
- Silicon Valley Office Space Continues to Get Cheaper
- Moffett Towers Might Finally Be Getting a Tenant
- GVA Kidder Mathews Acquires Wayne Mascia Associates
- Tesla Motors San Jose Land and Factory Deal: Thanks Government!
- Money Market Fund Goes Below Par
- HP to Cut 24,600 Jobs Over Next 3 Years
- Interest Rate Update
- Lehman's Ship Sinking; Bank of America Acquiring Merrill Lynch
- Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's Confirm Westfield Valley Fair Openings
- California and Silicon Valley Unemployment Rate Numbers
- Bay Area Flight Volumes Down
August 2008
- UK Economic Downturn "Worst In 60 Years"
- The Global Perspective on Construction Materials Prices
- Number of Problem Banks on FDIC List Grows
- A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
- Banks To Continue Dumping Office Space
- Snell & Co. and RREEF Purchase Cupertino Office Building From Symantec
- Cupertino Square Trouble Continues as Gramercy Capital Pursues Foreclosure
- Lehman To Dump $40B Worth of Real Estate Assets
- Interest Rate Update
- Legacy Partners Drops Sobrato-Oracle-BEA Tower Deal
- Facebook Moving to Stanford Research Park Office Space
- Valley Fair Expansion To Begin in January
- Lehman Brothers Looking To Shed $14B in Commercial Real Estate
- Now San Jose "Leaders" Want To Ban Fast Food Restaurants
- Closing Customs and Costs in San Francisco Bay Area Counties
- Bank of England Indicates Britain Headed into Recession
- SFO Logistics Center Sells To Centrum
- Japan Economy Slips; GDP Shrinks 2.4%
- Apple Building in Cupertino Catches Fire
- 155,000 Square Feet of Class A Office Space Being Proposed in Cupertino
- San Jose Reaches a Deal with School District on North San Jose Development
- Neiman Marcus Signs Lease at Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek
- San Francisco Bay Area Consumer Price Index (CPI) Up 4.7% Year over Year
- Federal Reserve Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged
- Law Firms Cutting Expenses and Staff
- Aviza Technology Headquarters Falls Out Of Escrow Again
- Stanford Plans 1.5 Million Square Feet Expansion in Redwood City
- Interest Rate Update
- San Jose, Santa Clara Union School District Continue Negotiations on North San Jose Development Fees
- East Palo Alto Expo Design Center Purchased, Demised Up, and Leased
- Apple Leases 60K SF Cupertino Landing Office Building; Blue Coat Sublease Next?
- California Unemployment Rate Up 150 Basis Points Year Over Year
- California Commercial Mortgage Defaults Triple; Still Very Low
July 2008
- LA City Council Passes Ordinance Placing Moratorium on Fast Food Restaurants in Impoverished Areas
- Mervyn's Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Second Quarter Silicon Valley Commercial Sales Activity
- Classic Residences by Hyatt Proposed for Los Gatos Lodge Site
- NAHB/Wells Fargo's July Housing Index Numbers Eclipse June's All-Time Low
- Stick To What You Know: Boone Pickens Dumps Yahoo! Stake
- Interest Rate Update
- RREEF Report on Commodity Prices and Impact on Real Estate
- Legacy Partners Buying Oracle/BEA/Sobrato Tower at 488 Almaden?
- Second Quarter Silicon Valley Office Space Leasing Activity
- Possibly Brilliant Timing for Buyer of Oracle/Sobrato Tower; PWC Possibly on the Hunt
- Excerpt of Boston Properties Q2 Earnings Call; Touches on San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Investment Climate
- Mervyn's Financial Situation Dire; May Be Forced To File BK
- RREEF Portfolio Sale Moving Forward
- Brocade to Buy Foundry Networks; Combine for a 800K SF Silicon Valley Footprint
- Roche Offers $44B For South San Francisco Giant Genentech
- Great America/Cedar Fair Asking $110M for Great America
- New Commercial Real Estate Maps Feature
- List of Starbucks Stores To Close
- Biggest Banks Likely Beneficiaries
- The Top Ten Mistakes Companies Make When Leasing Office Space
- ARM Mortgage Reset Pain to Continue
- Jones Lang LaSalle Completes Staubach Acquisition
- Cupertino Landing Lease in the Works
- IndyMac Bank Goes Under; Second Largest Bank Failure in U.S. History
- Tenet Healthcare Bails on Los Gatos Community Hospital
- Construction Costs for Parking Stalls
- NVIDIA Hurting; Real Estate Superstition Holding True
- A Guide to Office Building Classifications; Class A, Class B, Class C
- Shorenstein Buys Mezzanine Debt on McCandless Towers
- Blue Coat Systems Signs 233K Square Feet Lease in Sunnyvale
- Manhattan Office Vacancy Up; Investment Sales Down
- Swiss Bank Privacy Under Attack; Singapore Banking Likely Beneficiary
- Starbucks Closing 600 Stores in the United States
- National Venture Capital Association Issues Bleak Report; State of "Crisis"
June 2008
- Bailout At The Pump: Secret Deal to Bail Out The Financials
- Palo Alto Mandates Green Building for Commercial Construction
- Rotating Skyscraper: Financing Provided by Bank of Hummer
- Holy Moscow! Check Out Those Rents!
- Nothing to Write About Could Signal a Retail Slowdown
- Facebook Looking to Leave Downtown Palo Alto
- A Quick Guide to Investment Property Classifications
- Sequoia Capital Moving into San Francisco; Leases Top Floor at 555 Mission Street
- Credit and Equity Markets In For Massive Turmoil According to RBS
- Who is the Buyer of the Sobrato-BEA-Oracle Building at 488 Almaden Blvd?
- Kuwait's Al Hamra Tower - The World's First Sculptured Skyscraper
- National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Sentiment Index Reaches All-Time Low
- Wachovia Issues Report on Commercial Real Estate
- It's Official: Jones Lang LaSalle Buying Staubach for $613M
- Build It And They Won't Come.... The Story of South China Mall
- Verisign Selling Headquarters in Mountain View
- Jones Lang LaSalle and Staubach Merger To Be Announced Today?
- The Guy Is A Machine
- Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Acquiring Staubach for $735M
- Yahoo Cuts a Deal with Google
- YoY US and International Investment Sales Down Dramatically in Q1
- UCLA Reports on San Francisco Office Market
- Foreigners Nab Two New York Landmarks: Chrysler Building and Flatiron Building
- Rent Vs. Buy Heat Maps: A Tool For Small Investors
- Jones Lang LaSalle and Staubach Merging
- Real Estate Industry Jobs Report
- Hilarious But Not Really
- Google Leases Land at NASA for Development of New High Tech Campus
- Proposition G Passes, F Fails: Lennar and 49ers Stadium One Step Closer
- Signs of Life at Moffett Towers in Sunnyvale
- Cheaper Rents Bolster Fremont Activity
- The Yahoo-Microsoft Soap Opera Continues
- With Office Market Softening, Some Landlords Mull Reducing Asking Rents
- Housing Pain: Developer Offers Buy One Get One Free
May 2008
- Robert Half International Moving to San Ramon; Leases 236,000 SF
- Janitor Strike Over; New Contract Ratified
- Boston Properties, Goldman Sachs Acquire GM Building; Macklowe Son To Take Over
- 120-Acre San Jose Flea Market Site Put Up For Sale
- Brocade Acquires North First Street Land in San Jose for Office Park
- The Next Victim of the Housing Crisis: Privacy of Mortgage Professionals
- Bill Gross Says U.S. Understates Inflation
- Land Deal Approved by City Council; Earthquakes Stadium One Step Closer
- Sale of Macklowe's GM Building Looking Likely
- Oracle/BEA Tower On The Market
- Construction Costs on The Rise Again
- Silverstone Properties Fails in its Bid to Rezone Property
April 2008
- Bay Meadows Plan Gets The Green Light
- And The Landlord of The Year Award Goes To....
- NVIDIA Planning Two Million Square Feet Campus in Santa Clara
- Centex Bails Out Of Plant 51 Project and More
- Startups Today, VC's Tomorrow
- Brocade In Talks to Lease @First Office Park at First & 237
March 2008
- Mile High Tower in Saudi Arabia
- Green Building Requirements Becoming Mandatory
- Economic Stimulus Act Includes Provision For Commercial Construction
- KT Properties Picks Up 1 S Market in Downtown San Jose
- Hewlett Packard Reducing Real Estate Footprint by 25% in Cupertino and Palo Alto
- Coyote Valley Plans Put on Hold
- Walnut Creek Getting a New Neiman Marcus
- Venture Backed Startups Hit By Auction Rate Securities Disorder
- Weakness in Rents Beginning to Show
- Short Term Rates Down, Long Term Rates Up, Economy Down
- Fresh & Easy Stores Sales Well Below Expectations
- NVIDIA Purchase of Santa Clara Campus Confirmed
February 2008
- Legacy Partners Picks Up Hamilton Plaza in Campbell for $125M
- Cornish & Carey Predicting a Flat 2008
- NVIDIA Buying in Santa Clara?
- Santana Row Getting A 5-Story Retail/Office Building
- Not Even One Securitization Issuance Priced In January
- Macklowe Likely To Forfeit His 7-Property New York City Portfolio
- Serra Center in Milpitas Sells for $43.9M
- MaxRoam - A Great Tool For International Travellers
- San Francisco Office Space Leasing Slows
- Vietnam Town Troubles Continue
- Microsoft Bids For Yahoo; Facebook Numbers Leaked
January 2008
- Silicon Valley Chapter of NAIOP Broker Luncheon
- A Truly Green Building
- Museum Plaza! London, Dubai, Shanghai?
- SEC Publishes Proposal to Allow Commercial Real Estate Brokers to Sell TIC Interests
- Signs of Stress in Higher End Markets
- Q4 2007 Leasing Figures Not as Rosy
- 601 California in Palo Alto Trades for $85M
- Parkside Towers in Foster City Under Contract for $180M
- S&P's First Week Performance Worrisome
December 2007
- Happy New Year
- Commerce Department Releases November New Home Sales Numbers
- Commercial Market Downturn Talk Gaining Traction
- Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
- High Speed Rail in San Jose
- New Software Allows Mall Owners and Retailers To Analyze Foot Traffic
- Boston Properties Acquires North First Business Park in San Jose
- Closing The California Dream; Alliance Title Goes Under
November 2007
- Silicon Valley Architecture - Do You Have Any Favorites?
- The Incredible Growing Office Building
- Happy Thanksgiving
- A Little Humor Never Hurt
- Skyscrapers Redefined
- MIT's Transaction Based Index Marks First Drop Since Q3 '03
- CoreNet Global Honors Frank Jesse of BEA Systems and Joan Price of Gensler
- Mountain View, France?
- Short-Term "Enhanced Cash" Fund Goes Below Par
- Mathilda Place in Sunnyvale Sold
- Oracle Looking To Expand Its Pleasanton Footprint
- Deal To Sell Mission West Properties Still Going?
- Vietnam Town Work Halted
- Oakland A's Move To Fremont One Step Closer to Becoming Reality
- Congratulations to Quigo; Being Acquired By AOL
- Rising Rents Allowing Tenant's To Exit Leases
- Valley Transportation Authority Nabs The Mitchell Block
- Sub-Prime Impact Likely to Continue
October 2007
- In San Jose, 45 Means Historic
- Speculative Building in San Francisco Returns in a Big Way
- Lionstone Group Purchases Page Mill Hill For $95M
- Mission West In Play Again?
- Shorenstein Picks Up Piece of Moffett Towers Debt
- Commercial Paper Market Being Revived by Citigroup,JPM, and Bank of America
- San Jose's Green Vision Plan - Build/Retrofit 50M Square Feet by 2015
- Housing Auction Reveals Pockets of Weakness
- Park Center Plaza Sold to BPG Properties
- Prometheus Mortgages Cupertino City Center
- San Jose Housing Development Still Hot; Oakland Not
- Google Third Largest Acquirer of Santa Clara County Property Last Year
September 2007
- Details of Macklowe's EOP NYC Portfolio Acquisition Shed Light on Underwriting Standards
- Lower Interest Rates Should Provide a Short-Term Boost to US REITs
- Merrill Lynch Eliminating Jobs at First Franklin in San Jose
- European Commercial Market Down But Opportunity Remains
- BOMA: The Standard For Measuring Office Space
- The 24-Hour Workplace and Real Estate
- Kentucky "Turf State" Law Ruling A Win For Property Owners
- Commercial Paper Market "History"
- Windspire: DIY Wind Turbine Technology
- "Back of the Envelope" Office Construction Prices
- When To Exercise a Lease Option
- Disconnect Between Rents and Prices in San Francisco Focus of New York Times Article
- Bloomberg Article Points to 15% Drop in Commercial Prices
- Pension Funds Working Their Way Back Into The Market
- Taking Advantage of More Stringent Residential Lending Standards
August 2007
- Opus West Finishing Up Sierra Point in Brisbane
- UK Commercial Sector Feeling Similar Woes
- Blockbuster M&A, Commercial Property Deals Slow
- Office Hotelling Trend Continues
- Rentometer: A Helpful Tool For Apartment Investors
- Common Leasing Mistake: Not Using a Broker
- A Thought on Cupertino Square
- Options Being Explored for San Jose's Old City Hall
- What Does NNN (Triple Net) Mean in Commercial Leasing?
- Amgen Shedding 365,000 SF of Space in South San Francisco
- Dot Com Redux? Some Lease Deals Involving Equity Again
- OfficeSnapshots.com provides a glimpse into the offices of popular companies
- Mission West Properties Deal Scrapped
- European Central Bank is Forced to Pump $130B Into Markets
- Subprime Related Losses Spread to France
- S&P in Partnership with Schwab Launches a Commercial Real Estate Index
- Commercial Mortgage Defaults Hit 5-Year Low; Lenders Spooked
- Fixed Income Trouble and the Impact on Commercial Lending and Property Prices
- 1031 Exchange Intermediary Fraud
- When Should You Start Looking for Space?
- Lease Terms and How To Decide What Is Right
- Commercial Real Estate Glossary
July 2007
- What record high commercial real estate prices mean for tenants
- 1031 Reverse Exchange
- Tishman Speyer Unloads Building For $110M; Purchased Last Year for $60M
- More on Green Lending....and now Banking
- Office Space Efficiency: Alternative Approaches
- Office Moving Checklist
- Carlyle acquires former Cisco buildings for $98M
- 1031 Deferred Exchange
- Green building, Wells Fargo, and more...
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