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• Tranche Warfare; Evaluations of TALF; Banks Adopt New Rules (Wednesday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 511
  Here are some recent news and notes about retail and retail real estate. Ready for tranche warfare? FinCriAdviser takes a good look at the brewing tensions building between senior and junior bondholders of CMBS debt. The story predicts we’ll see a fair number of lawsuits stemming from conflicts over how to ...
  20 hours ago

• The Future of Commercial Real Estate ETFs

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 535
  As we take a moment to reflect on the past year, it becomes obvious that the housing market bust crippled the economy. What made this cyclical bust in the real estate and related exchange traded fund (ETF) markets different from the others?Unrealistic assumptions, multiple layers of investors and...
  1 day ago

• Retail Sector to See More Closings in 2010; More Pain for Owners (Monday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 511
  As we head into the all-important November/December shopping season, the stakes are getting high for everyone involved. Some retailers are working on holiday sales strategies that will protect them from taking huge hits on prices, while others are mulling over further store closings. The retail industry’s ...
  2 days ago

• Vanguard ETFs: How It Gained a Foothold In a Competitive Market

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 535
  Vanguard was a relative latecomer to the exchange traded fund (ETF) industry, launching its first fund in 2001. But the firm has since become the third-largest ETF provider, thanks in part to low fees. Vanguard Group Inc. is already the largest U.S. stock and bond mutual fund manager, and now the...
  5 days ago

• Los Angeles Luxury Rental Pains Accelerate As REIT BRE Properties Continues Feeling Goldman Anger (And Underperforming)

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  If multi-apartment REIT BRE Properties is any indication of the housing "recovery" that is currently occurring on the West Coast, then look for several more decades of "exceptional" interest rates (when the exception is the norm, will any future rate hike be announced as exceptional as well... some time in 2020?). ...
  1 week ago

• More Worries About Commercial Real Estate; NIMBY Wars; Dollar General’s IPO (Wednesday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 511
  More people are worrying about commercial real estate. A Reuters piece from earlier this week features comments from Jon Greenlee, associate director of the Fed’s Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation . Greenlee, remember, testified in a hearing before Congress in July on the precarious state of ...
  1 week ago

• Blackstone Top Ticks Market Again, As Second IPO Pulled

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  The IPO window has closed. Just like in 2007, Blackstone once again times the exit opportunity perfectly (too bad you cant IPO twice), while firms like AEI and now Aviv REIT end up having to pull their initial public offerings. And this one happens to be the triple whammy of not just an IPO, and not just a REIT, but ...
  1 week ago

• Ross, Soros Slam Commercial Real Estate; New Bank Guidelines (Monday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 511
  I’m in need of some desperate catching up. There was a bunch of big headlines about the commercial real estate crash. The latest to talk about the impending doom in commercial real estate were Wilbur Ross who sees a “huge crash in commercial real estate coming” and George Soros , who talked of a ...
  1 week ago

• Daily Credit Summary: October 30 - Vermicious Knids

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  Spreads were broadly wider in the US as all the indices deteriorated (as IG and HY closed at their wides with the former making its largest jump wider since 10/01). IG trades 7.8bps wide (cheap) to its 50d moving average, which is a Z-Score of 1.3s.d.. At 109bps, IG has closed tighter on 63 days so far this year (217 ...
  1 week ago

• Wilbur Ross: "The Beginning Of A Huge Crash In Commercial Real Estate"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  In what would could pass for Cohen & Steers worst nightmare, Wilbur Ross today said that he anticipates essentially an Armageddon for US commercial real estate. What we fail to see is how this is news... What we fail to see even more is how the hell REITs are still trading where they are? It must be all those ...
  1 week ago

• Bloomberg Sector Focus: REITs

  
  Deal Junkie — Authority: 121
  
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• Downturn Might Be Over for Retailers; But Not for Landlords (Wednesday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 511
  The U.S. retail sector might have a ways to go before it could be considered anything close to healthy, but it seems recovery is beginning to take hold, with some chains finally looking at expansion. The commercial real estate sector, however, is still in very troubled waters, according to reports from the past few ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Joint Ventures for Retail REITs

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 511
  It’s been a popular year for joint ventures. Macerich has been the most aggressive about forming joint ventures to shore up its balance sheet. The moves put it in a better position for a common offering, which it recently announced . In the past couple of days, two other retail REITs have released details of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Einhorn’s Top 10 Losing Shorts: REITs and Financials

  
  Topblank — Authority: 163
  Einhorn’s Top 10 Losing Shorts: REITs and Financials
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• Four Seasons Hotel In New York Is Latest Victim Of CRE Crash

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  The CRE crunch continues claiming victims, with the latest being the Four Seasons Hotel in New York. And while Stuyvesant Town is some dinky little project somewhere on the East side of New York (or so prevailing thought runs), which few care if it goes belly up or not, the fat cats that frequent the opulent hotel on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Capmark To File For Bankruptcy, More FDIC Headaches

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  Its game over for Capmark, which is expected to file for bankruptcy within 24 hours. The firm which was formerly GMACs commercial real estate business (Or GMAC Commercial Holding Ccapital Markets Corp in short), and had originated over $10 billion in CRE loans (by the way, did we say that CRE REITs are undervalued? if ...
  2 weeks ago

• Commercial Real Estate and Shoes

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 511
  The terms “commercial real estate” and “next shoe” generate more than 29,000 hits on a Google search . For the past few months, there’s been a drumbeat that it’s just a matter of time before commercial real estate collapses and wreaks havoc on the economy. The thought is that the mountain of commercial ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Only Thing Really Going Down Right Now is the U.S. Dollar

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  Okay. Who put the financial world in a time machine and took us all back to 2007? Seriously. Oil traded above $80 overnight. Gold is hovering near $1,060. Stocks are up. Bonds are up. The Aussie dollar is up. Will anything ever go down again? The front page of todays Australian Financial Review has a time-lapsed ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Owning REIT ETFs Can Benefit You

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 535
  Real estate investments and REIT exchange traded funds (ETFs) can be a good addition to any portfolio for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that they deliver diversification and high exposure at a lower cost.The decline in the market should not dissuade any investor from allocating part...
  3 weeks ago

• 5 International Real Estate ETFs In the Crosshairs

  
  ETF Expert — Authority: 128
  Wary of U.S. REITs and U.S. real estate-related ETFs. I know that I am. For instance, using Risk Grades  standardized measure of volatility, the SPDR U.S. Dow Jones REIT Fund (RWR) registers 212 while the SPDR DJ International Real Estate (RWX) logs 117. That makes the U.S. REIT Fund 1.8x as volatile as the ...
  3 weeks ago

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