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Thanks Solyndra
November 4, 2010
Tweet For taking $550M of our money (in the form of loan guarantees) and using it to expand like crazy when the price of your product is probably going to get cut in half in a matter of a year. Just seven weeks ago, Solyndra opened Fab 2, a $733 million factory in Fremont, Calif., [...]
Read More >>Loopnet Brings More Property Information to the Masses
September 15, 2010
Tweet Not too long ago I had a lunch meeting with a client. The building next door to where we were meeting happened to have a for lease sign out front. When I showed up my client had his iPad out, Loopnet open, and looking at the listing, along with a slew of additional information [...]
Read More >>A Quick Thought on Carried Interest
June 4, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Read More >>Prudential’s Case for CRE
May 25, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Read More >>Not Much To Say
May 25, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Read More >>Moody’s/REAL CPPI Index Down .5% in March
May 19, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Read More >>40 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps
May 10, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Read More >>Wal-Mart Scoping Former Mervyn’s Spaces in Southern California
May 10, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
Read More >>Kudos to Cornish & Carey
May 10, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
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