The commercial real estate market is quickly becomming an international market with large tenants, commercial real estate agents and developers expanding to other countries.  The expansion is not just from the U.S. outward to other countries but also from other countries here.  For example one of the major shopping center developers in the U.S. is Westfield Group, an Australian firm.  We expect the internationalization of commercial real estate to grow substantially in comming years.  The following article should be interesting to those who follow these events. Global Real Estate Markets […]

Often when an investor is seeking debt or equity financing for a type of commercial property with which he has little or no experience he finds investors/lenders reluctant to consider new financing because of his lack of experience.  In a recent article (“Strengthening the Property Sponsorâ€?) in the March 2007 issue of National Real Estate Investor W. Joseph Caton writes about how an investor can strengthen his position with a potential lender.    As he states, after the location and potential cash flow from a project the strength of the […]

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT TRENDS An article in the March 2007 issue of “RETAIL TRAFFICâ€?,  magazine dealing with the retail real estate industry describes some recent trends in mixed use developments. I points out that only a couple of years ago missing office, retail, residential and hotel uses was considered “cutting edgeâ€? but today developers are experimenting with mixing more unconventional uses such as performing arts centers, libraries, city halls, zoos, auto racetracks and sports stadiums to name just a few. Developers, especially those outside the United States, have sometimes been […]

Anemic Job Growth Could Stall Commercial Real Estate’s Momentum By Matt Hudgins Mar 15, 2007 2:53 PM The slowing job market chiefly reflects the housing downturn but will likely throw a damper on demand for commercial space as well, according to some of the nation’s leading economists and real estate forecasters. U.S. non-farm payrolls rose by 97,000 in February. That’s the lowest employment growth in more than two years. “The bad news is that slower job growth means slower absorption of space, particularly for office and apartments,â€? says Hessam Nadji, […]