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A Quick Thought on Carried Interest
June 4, 2010
John Reeder over at MarketWi.Se has a post up with some of his views on the carried interest tax as well as those of Fred Wilson, a prominent venture capitalist. There has been a lot of debate about this tax, and I’ve even posted a couple times here and there on the issue. Much of the [...]
Read More >>Prudential’s Case for CRE
May 25, 2010
Prudential has released a mini-report titled “Revisiting the Case for Commercial Real Estate”. It covers all the basics but surprisingly keeps the Challenges & Risks to a brief five paragraphs. It talks about interest rate risk, but doesn’t talk about the credit rating of the US. It talks about the financing gap but doesn’t go [...]
Read More >>Not Much To Say
May 25, 2010
Bad news on the heels of bad news. There are pockets of strength here and there, but overall the sentiment is what drives the equity markets and it seems we’ve reached a point where the self-fulfilling prophecy is achieved by a bunch of machines. Sprinkle in reckless spending and it won’t take long for things [...]
Read More >>Moody’s/REAL CPPI Index Down .5% in March
May 19, 2010
The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index dropped .5% in March. This marks the second month in a row that prices have dropped after a few months of increases. The index is now 42.1% off the peak. Despite the overall decline in the index, some positives were Apartments and Industrial in the top-10 MSAs. In the [...]
Read More >>40 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps
May 10, 2010
1 in 8 Americans is now receiving food stamps, a new record. Despite the economy purportedly adding jobs again, it is also adding to the number of people on food stamps. The USDA numbers show that 39.68M Americans were receiving food stamps in February, up 260,000 from January. And the problem is expected to grow. [...]
Read More >>Wal-Mart Scoping Former Mervyn’s Spaces in Southern California
May 10, 2010
Wal-Mart is opening up a mini-version of its Supercenters in in-fill markets in Southern California. It has signed a lease to take over a former 75,000SF Mervyn’s. The typical Supercenter is 150K+ SF. The company is also testing even smaller-format 10-20K sites in various parts of the country. The decision to “downsize” in in-fill markets [...]
Read More >>Kudos to Cornish & Carey
May 10, 2010
It seems that the folks over at Cornish & Carey have decided to put rental rate and available space information back up on their website. I was admittedly harsh on them back in January when I wrote a post about why I felt hiding this information was counterproductive and against the interests of the landlords [...]
Read More >>Richard LeFrak on CNBC With a Wait and See Attitude
April 27, 2010
Richard LeFrak of the LeFrak Organization was on CNBC with Maria to discuss commercial real estate. He continues to be somewhat cautious and is taking a “wait and see” approach, though there is certainly more cautious optimism out of him. Echoing his comments, multifamily continues to be hot with investors scrambling to take a stab [...]
Read More >>Moody’s CPPI Index Down 2.6%
April 20, 2010
In our previous post we indicated that risk was back, alluding to our belief that many investors are likely getting ahead of themselves in believing that we’ve seen the worst of it. In a market where the government is willing to artificially provide support to markets at nearly any cost (debt), it ultimately leads to [...]
Read More >>Welcome Back Risk
April 19, 2010
For the past few months, it seems the bears have taken a back seat to a lot of bullishness, particularly in commercial real estate. A few months of rising prices, equity flowing everywhere, and a whole lot more buyers than sellers has made many investors feel that perhaps we’ve seen the worst of it. Perhaps [...]
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