Report from ICSC New York: Deal Making Slows, But Optimism Reigns
Dec 5, 2007
After a rough few months that saw the credit markets seize, a slowdown in investment sales volume and what's expected to be a holiday shopping season, the buzzword at ICSC's New York National Conference...
Editor's Letter: Credit Markets Crunch Commercial Real Estate
Dec 1, 2007, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
The industry has grappled with understanding the effects of the credit crunch since the summer. Up until now, the dominant view has been that the market...
Land on Shaky Ground
Nov 28, 2007
As the U.S. real estate market downshifts, a strategy that seemed like a sure bet a year or two ago--investing in land--suddenly isn't working out so well...
Soft Landing
Nov 1, 2007
The U.S. commercial real estate market will experience a slowdown next year, with rising cap rates and tightening lending requirements, says a recent...
Credit Crunch Concerns
Nov 1, 2007, David Bodamer
Go to an ICSC event and you'd be hard-pressed to sense there are any deep concerns about the health of the real estate industry. Booths bustle with activity....
Pyramid Effect
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
The bidders continue to be few and far between, but Morgan Stanley REIT analysts Matthew Ostrower and Mick Chiang say the sale of the 16-center B-mall...
2008 Commercial Real Estate Forecast Looking a Bit Cloudy
Oct 25, 2007
The commercial real estate industry has put on a brave front, but signs of pessimism about the coming months are increasing. The question has shifted from, "Will things turn?" to ...
Shrinking Development Yields Place Retail REITs at Crossroads
Oct 17, 2007
Suddenly, development doesn't seem like quite the safe bet that it did at the beginning of the year for retail REITs. ...
REIT Joint Ventures Unfazed By Credit Market Tumult
Sep 26, 2007
In the first half of the year, it seemed retail REITs announced joint ventures on an almost daily basis. But will the recent troubles in the debt market make this once-popular investment play more difficult to pull off?...
Retail Real Estate Braces for Pricing Drop
Sep 19, 2007
The retail real estate industry feared this moment for the past three years, but everyone knew it would come. The first hints arrived early this summer, when class B and C retail assets started trading at cap rates higher than 7 percent, above last year's sector-wide average of 6.9 percent. The reported increases ranged from 30 to 100 basis points, depending on the region. ...
