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- Staubach: commercial real estate Firm Fosters Collaborative Culture With Portal Technology
- The Staubach Company is the leading global real estate advisory firm that delivers cost-effective solutions for the users of office, industrial, and retail space. It needed a collaborative solution to help its brokers organize and exchange information across national and international markets. Staubach Connect, a Web portal using Microsoft Windows...
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- 2008 Real Estate Capital Markets Industry Outlook
- While the credit crunch and economic uncertainty have caused investor anxiety and tighter lending standards, Commercial Real Estate CRE remains comparatively attractive with solid underlying fundamentals, plentiful capital and sustained allocations. Deloitte recently released its 2008 capital markets Top Ten Issues report. The report provides insight about commercial real estate...
- White papers 2008-01-25
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Direct Investment In commercial real estate
- This paper formed the basis of the keynote address to the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society conference in Melbourne. In the asset allocation process, direct real estate investment suffers from some perceived disadvantages and this paper summarises research, funded by practice, into three of these perceived disadvantages; depreciation in value,...
- White papers 2007-03-06
- 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...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- US commercial real estate Indices: The NCREIF Property Index
- NCREIF is a Not-for-Profit Industry Association that was founded in 1982, which collects and validates real estate performance data, calculates and publishes performance measures. This paper focuses on the NCREIF Property Index NPI which provides returns for institutional grade real estate held in a fiduciary environment in the United States....
- White papers 2005-04-22
- US commercial real estate Indices: Transaction-Based and Constant-Liquidity Indices
- This paper discusses commercial price indices, focusing on transaction-based indices. It discusses the problems created by using transactions as the basis for a price index and solutions to the problems. It also introduces a recently derived index that provides measures of the value of commercial property in an environment where...
- White papers 2005-04-22
- Seven Reasons Why Real Estate Prices Will Hold Up for Now But Five More Reasons Why You Should Sit Up Straight and Pay Close Attention
- Commercial real estate has done just fine, in a non-inflationary environment. This would suggest that real estate is more of a stagnation hedge than an inflation hedge. Furthermore, the weakness in fundamentals has been driven by demand?not supply. This article provides seven reasons why commercial real estate prices will hold...
- White papers 2004-11-08
- 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...
- White papers 2004-10-26
- Pay Hikes and Hiring as Commercial Market Gathers Steam
- A resurgence and a renewed optimism in the nation's commercial real estate marketing are fueling modest hiring and compensation increases, according to the 20042005 Compensation Report, published by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties NAIOP. The 132-page report, which is conducted every two years, highlights compensation and benefit...
- White papers 2004-09-15
- Optimal Capital Structure and the Market for Outside Finance in commercial real estate
- When asked about optimal capital structure, the typical response from a commercial real estate investor is "go for it?use as much debt as possible." This answer, while not being necessarily incorrect, is not very informative. This paper seeks to articulate the economics underlying the market for outside finance in commercial...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Time-Varying Macroeconomic Risk and commercial real estate: An Asset Pricing Perspective
- This paper empirically investigates the behavior over time of excess returns risk premium on commercial real estate. Specifically, the first and second conditional moments on office and retail real estate excess returns are related to the conditional variances and covariances of five specified macroeconomic factors: growth rate in gross domestic...
- White papers 2004-04-20
- 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...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- 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...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Diversification in commercial real estate: Realizing Continuous Spatial Correlation
- The diversification within real estate is not as costless as other financial assets such as stocks or bonds. The local nature of real estate implies that investment managers may need to specialize for simplicity or by portfolio objective. To address this trade-off between diversification and specialization this study quantifies the...
- White papers 2004-02-02
- Loss Characteristics of commercial real estate Loan Portfolios
- The Internal Ratings-Based IRB treatment of commercial real estate CRE lending is an area in which constructive public feedback is critical. This white paper presents the data and analysis reviewed by the staff of the Board of Governors to develop the proposals for applying capital requirements to commercial real estate...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- A Sector View of Public Market Ownership of commercial real estate in the United States
- A popular topic in financial research has been the development and perfection of models for pricing stocks. A three-factor pricing model that incorporates a real estate factor along with stock market and interest rate factors is developed. Results of the analysis lend support to the application of the three-factor model...
- White papers 2003-02-12
- 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,...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- 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...
- Presentations 2003-01-24
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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