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• Chairman of AREA (Apollo) William Mack on CNBC

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  William Mack, the founder and chairman of AREA Property Partners, formerly Apollo Real Estate Investors was on CNBC. He seems to generally share the same view as Soros and Ross.He focuses in on consumer confidence as the driver for a recovery. The four things are: 1) job recovery, 2) home price recovery, 3) access to ...
  3 hours ago

• CalPERS Takes Huge Hit to RE Portfolio

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  CalPERS has taken a huge hit to its real estate portfolio according to The Registry.At the end of March, the pension fund placed a net-asset fair-market value on its real estate holdings of $17.6 billion. Three months later, the retirement system said the value had fallen by nearly a quarter to $13.4 billion.Amongst ...
  9 hours ago

• Real Estate: The Time To Buy?

  
  The Commercial Real Estate HandBlog — Authority: 108
  Hanging with friends and yes...real estate Greetings from Washington D.C.  Yes….I am still here. Today I spent time with some friends who used to live in New Mexico and now live in the D.C. area.  I also met up with an old high school friend.  It was great to connect….but the realization of how I let time ...
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• United Commercial Bank Goes Down

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  United Commercial Bank of San Francisco has bitten the dust. The FDIC took over UCB on Friday. United Commercial Bank got into a lot of trouble with its commercial real estate loan portfolio recently, taking hits on loans made on assets such as Vietnam Town, and Cupertino Square/Vallco Mall. It has significant assets ...
  4 days ago

• 4280 Hacienda in Pleasanton In Default

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  A notice of default was filed on the 141,000 SF Britannia II building in Pleasanton. The building is 141,000 SF, and has a $41M first deed of trust on it with Bank of America. The property sits on about 8.3 acres. The notice of default was filed on October 27, 2009. Asking rate is $1.75 [...]
  5 days ago

• Commercial Real Estate Bust Makes BusinessWeek Cover

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  The main stream media is really starting to pickup the commercial real estate fallout. This in our opinion is a good thing seeing how they are usually late to the party.We’ve been talking about the trouble for a few years now, but we’ve seen increasing amounts of segments on CRE, mostly on Bloomberg and CNBC. [...]
  5 days ago

• Who Are The Largest Firms Investing Internationally For US Clients? Here’s The Top 10

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  We previously posted a top ten list of the largest firms who handle investments in US real estate for foreigner. Somebody emailed us wanting to know who the top 10 money management firms were who invested internationally on behalf of US investors. Here they are below, ranked by tax-exempt status as of about mid-2009. ...
  5 days ago

• 2010 Will Be A “Bloodbath”, But Keep Reading

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  We’ve heard all sorts of things to describe the fall in CRE. The most recent have been “Bloodletting” (Soros), “Huge Crash” and “Tragedies” (Ross). P&I is out with an article pointing to the recent PwC/ULI report that is being widely reported on. They’ve focused in on the most sensational part of ...
  6 days ago

• Dr. Doom on CNBC: Carry Trade, Asset Bubbles, and Housing

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  Nouriel Roubini on CNBC as a follow up to his article on FT discussing the carry trade. Housing down another 10% through next year, commercial real estate even worse. Recovery will be U shaped rather than V-shaped. CapEX is unlikely given current capacity utilization are so low. Asset bubbles out of hand in Asia. And ...
  6 days ago

• Fannie Mae To Become Landlord By Renting Back Homes

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  A “Deed for Lease” program has been released by Fannie Mae whereby owner’s of home unable to qualify for a workout or refinance would turn over the deed to their house in lieu of foreclosure, essentially a deed with lease agreement in lieu. Borrowers would  be able to sign leases for up to 12 months, and [...]
  6 days ago

• Unemployment Benefits and Homebuyer Tax Credit Extended

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  After weeks of partisan debate, the Senate voted on Wednesday to lengthen unemployment benefits by up to 20 weeks and to extend the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit.The closely watched legislation would extend jobless benefits in all states by 14 weeks. Those that live in states with unemployment greater than 8.5% would ...
  1 week ago

• Juniper Networks Renews 425K SF Headquarters Lease

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  Juniper Networks (JNPR: 25.68 +0.12%) has renewed its lease for the three buildings it occupies as its headquarters in Sunnyvale. The buildings are located at 1184, 1194, and 1220 N. Mathilda Avenue and were constructed between 2000 and 2002. Average floor plates are 35,400 (comparable to Moffett Towers interestingly ...
  1 week ago

• PIMCO: House Prices Yet To Bottom

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  PIMCO’s head of mortgage bonds believes prices are going to continue to fall, particularly on the high end. As FHA loans tighten, and foreclosures begin to increase again, home prices will likely resume their fall which will continue to put pressure on household spending. The article also brings to light a statistic ...
  1 week ago

• CRE: 90’s Then And Now Part Three

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  Business Insider had a two-post discussion on commercial real estate, and the difference between the nineties and now. The original post which references a post by David Lynn of ING Clarion in NREI points out that we don’t have the oversupply problem that plagued the industry in the 90’s. In addition, most real ...
  1 week ago

• Wilbur Ross On CNBC

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  The talk on commercial real estate begins around 4:25…
  1 week ago

• 10% of Commercial Sales To Owner-Users In First Half of 2009

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  Business Week is reporting that 10% of commercial property transactions during the first half of 2009 were sales to owner-users. As rents and values have plummeted, users are stepping up to acquire assets and gain control of long term occupancy costs. An article by Business Week cites the recent purchase by ...
  1 week ago

• MIT TBI Shows 4.4% Quarterly Jump

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  The MIT Center for Real Estate Transaction-Based Index (TBI) numbers released for the third quarter has reversed course and shown a 4.4% jump from the previous quarter.The 4.4 percent increase in the transactions-based index (TBI) for the third quarter is the first positive price change in the index in over a year, ...
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• Prudential CRE US Quarterly Update

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  Prudential has recently put out its quarterly update on US real estate. On debt markets:At commercial banks…Commercial banks, which represent about half of the $3.5 trillion commercial-mortgage market, remain largely stuck in the “extend-and-pretend” mode. Some banks are originating loans for balance sheets, ...
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• Real Estate Investing – Your Biggest Investing Enemy?…..Emotion.

  
  The Commercial Real Estate HandBlog — Authority: 108
  Washington D.C. in the fall Greetings from Washington, DC.  One of my favorite cities…..if not my favorite city.  I’d have to think about it. As funny or odd as this may sound, Washington D.C. is a very romantic city.  There are so many positive emotions that bubble up that I think the word “romantic” is ...
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• Real Estate Roundtable Q4 Sentiment Index: Better But Not Good

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  The Real Estate Roundtable published its fourth quarter Sentiment Index. The press release is still pretty grim:With high unemployment pushing up vacancies, no credit capacity and property values plummeting, commercial real estate markets remain extremely stressed with little prospect for significant near-term ...
  1 week ago

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