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Will There Be a Recession? Economists Weigh In
How wide and how severe will the fall out from this summer's sub-prime meltdown be? That's the question occupying a great many minds in the financial world. They've got a lot of numbers to crunch, from the rise in new jobs in September, to the markets' big rally on Monday,...
Tags: Business Operations, Financial Services, Real Estate, LA Times, Sector, Bloomberg L.P., Consumer Confidence, Commercial Real Estate, Economist, U.S., Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-10-10
Worth the Price: Trophy Properties can add prestige and stability to a property portfolio
The world of commercial real estate investment, owning a familiar landmark can add prestige and glamour to a property portfolio along with a dose of financial security. Prestige or trophy properties run the gamut from upscale shopping malls and elegant hotels and spas to office towers, swank apartments and mixed-used...
Tags: REIT, Property, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Investment, Financial Services, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2001-07-01
Resolving Disputes in Commercial Property Sales and Leasing: Mediation and Arbitration Clauses in Commercial Real Estate Contracts Manage Risk and Reduce Legal Costs
When disputes arise between parties to commercial real estate sales or lease transactions and negotiation does not resolve the conflicts, the opposing parties often consider filing civil lawsuits to resolve the disputes. Unfortunately, lawsuits can be expensive and time-consuming, and generally are not effective at preserving working relationships. Parties to...
Tags: Mediation, Arbitration, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Property, Leasing, National Arbitration Forum, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2005-10-01
Brand-Name Recognition
From the executive summary: ‘Establishing a unique identity in today's marketplace is a challenge, particularly in the competitive commercial real estate world. The main issue is to stand out among other competing firms. While service and results long have been paramount to gaining and keeping clients, a well-known brand also...
Tags: National Association Of Realtors, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Commercial Office Space: Tests of a Real Options Model With Competitive Interactions
This paper tests a real options model with competitive interactions using an extensive commercial real estate data base. The competitive nature of the local real estate market as proxied by the market's Herfindahl ratio is found to have a significant effect on building starts: larger values of the Herfindahl ratio,...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Commercial Real Estate, Ratio, University Of California, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2003-02-01
Assessing Risk
From the executive summary: ‘In the commercial real estate investment context, risk is anything that creates volatility in property or actual returns. In addition to analyzing returns and running cash-flow projections, shrewd investors effectively understand risk analysis and management. Hence, to deal with risk effectively, investors must know how to...
Tags: National Association Of Realtors, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Financial Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2004-03-01
Safe & Secure
In the hierarchy of human needs, security is one of the most important. Everyone, however, has their own definition of what makes them feel secure and safe. No matter the sector, the owners of commercial real estate properties need to determine what tenants are going to want and need and...
Tags: Security, REIT, Commercial Real Estate, Corporate Office, Real Estate, Investment, Financial Services, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2001-07-01
Integra Bank Corporation Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions And our first question comes from Scott Siefers with Sandler O'Neill. Scott Siefers – Sandler O'Neill Good afternoon, guys. Let's see I guess first question will just be on credit costs. Do you have a – do you have a sense just...
Tags: Cincinnati, Commercial Real Estate, Call Transcript, Residential Construction, Earnings, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha, Integra Bank Corp.
Earnings calls 2008-11-10
Choosing a Civil Engineer
Experienced developers know that unforeseen problems can turn a profitable project into a money funnel. Unknown circumstances lurking below the topsoil quickly can cause costs to double or even triple. However, it is possible for commercial real estate professionals to avoid such surprises or at least figure them into the...
Tags: National Association Of Realtors, Commercial Real Estate, Engineer, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Relocation Strategies
To remain competitive, companies must view their operating locations as an integral part of their core business strategy. Whether the facility is a corporate headquarters, back office, research and development center, or warehouse, location can help companies access emerging markets, compete for talent, achieve operating cost advantages, or enhance relationships...
Tags: Strategy, Commercial Real Estate, Site Selection Strategy, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2002-05-01
A Subtenant's Guide to Subleasing
The sudden and dramatic reversal in the financial condition of many high-tech companies, and the ensuing softening of the local commercial real estate market, has led to a flood of sublease space on the commercial real estate market. The most basic pitfall involves the legal status of the subtenant of...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Subtenant, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2001-10-01
Sale And Acquisition Concerns Arising From Hospitality Property Transactions: Buying And Selling A "Business In A Box"
This paper discusses special concerns and issues that arise in the purchase and sale of a hotel or resort property. The outline assumes that the reader is knowledgeable about the normal issues that are involved in generic real estate transactions, and so those issues are not discussed. When you are...
Tags: Acquisition, Commercial Real Estate, Issue, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
Presentations 2003-01-24
Loan Fight: Deutsche Bank Vs. Donald Trump
Once again, Donald Trump is going toe-to-toe with his banker. Deutsche Bank, a major backer of Trump's mammoth new condominium/hotel tower in downtown Chicago, is demanding the real estate mogul pay a $40 million personal guarantee connected to a $640 million construction loan the German bank made...
Tags: Deutsche Bank AG, Commercial Real Estate, Casino, Chicago, Donald Trump, Trump Entertainment, Casino Holding, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations, Robert Reed
Blog posts 2008-12-01
Think Big, Buy Small
From the executive summary: ‘Regardless of whether small businesses are pursuing existing properties, new buildings, or condominiums, ample opportunities for commercial real estate professionals exist. Educated real estate professionals can sell their worth by performing a show-and-tell exercise, analyzing and documenting the various cash flows, comparing lease alternatives to the...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Certified Commercial Investment Member Insititute, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Commercial Real Estate Development and the "City Offer"
The paper explores commercial real estate development and its contribution to the "city offer" and consists of sections on office development analysis and individual city overviews. It identifies the key themes running through the quantitative and qualitative research, and sought to conclude on how property development is contributing to the...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Jones Lang LaSalle, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2001-10-19
Testing Alternative Theories of Property Price-Trading Volume With Commercial Real Estate Market Data
The significant price-trading volume correlation found in the residential property market presents a challenge to the rational expectation hypothesis. Existing theories account for this fact with either capital market imperfection (down-payment effect or loss-aversion consideration) or imperfect information search theoretic models. This paper employs data from both the sale and...
Tags: Capital Market, Theory, Commercial Real Estate, Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Policy Implication, Financial Services, Real Estate, Investment, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2004-02-01
The Case of the Missing Commercial Real Estate Cycle
This "missing" commercial real estate cycle is arguably partly attributable to the rapid growth of real estate securitizations in the past decade. First, the emergence of new financing methods provided a substitute for traditional banking finance and may have helped even out the flow of capital into the commercial property...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Property, Bank For International Settlements, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2002-09-01
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
This article provides insight into commercial mortgage backed securities CMBS. CMBS are bonds that have been collateralized by a pool of commercial real estate mortgages. All of the principal and interest from the mortgages flow to bondholders over the life of the bonds. Typically CMBS trusts range in size from...
Tags: Bond, Commercial Real Estate, Mortgage-backed Security, Mortgages, Real Estate, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations
White papers 2004-10-26
Inter-Industry Contagion and the Competitive Effects of Financial Distress Announcements: Evidence From Commercial Banks and Life Insurance Companies
This paper investigates the "inter-industry" contagion effects of financial distress announcements by commercial banks on the stock returns of life insurance companies, and vice versa. It focuses on inter-industry contagion effects because the vast majority of the extant literature about contagion has neglected this important potential cost to shareholders. It...
Tags: Financial, Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago, Commercial Real Estate, Life Insurance, Commercial Bank, Insurance, Real Estate, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers 2002-12-01
Causality in Real Estate Markets
This study examines the causal price/rental relationships between the residential and the commercial real estate markets (office buildings, retail stores and industrial properties). Contemporary causalities between residential and the three types of commercial properties are found. The results indicate that the residential and commercial real estate markets have similar responses...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations
White papers 2001-01-19
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