Capital Chases “Safety” of Sale-Leasebacks

The market for sale-leasebacks continue to mend. National Real Estate Investor
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Did Single-Family Property Investors Drive Housing into Crisis?

By apparently misreporting their intentions to occupy the single-family properties they were buying, the higher degree of leverage investors took on for their home property purchases directly contributed to higher rates of default during the current housing market crisis, according to
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Hollywood Florida Storage Facility Transfers

Hollywood Self Storage LLC acquired 851 Knights Rd. in Hollywood, FL from J.P. Morgan Chase for $ 5.51 million, or about $ 59 per square foot. The 93,318-square-foot, self-storage complex was built in 1972. It consists of 795 storage units in single-story buildings on 3.7 acres in the
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Right to Manage Directors: The Buck Stops With You!

The option of Right to Manage (a right for a group of qualifying leaseholders to set up a company and swap their current managing agent for one of their own choosing) appears to be seen by many as the panacea for all the ills in the leasehold sector. ARMA, on their website state that
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It’s Now Brixmor: Name Change In Store For Centro Shopping Centers

The former U.S. operations of Australia-based Centro Properties Group has a new name, Brixmor Property Group, a branding identity change that appropriately reflects the company’s renewed emphasis on its huge portfolio of existing bricks-and-mortar shopping centers across the U.S. CoSt
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Online Retail Sales Will Buttress, Boost Brick and Mortar Store Sales This Holiday

Retailers should expect small gains in their 2011 sales this coming holiday season, and those gains will more likely come from non-store sales, Deloitte forecasted this week. Deloitte’s retail and distribution practice expects total holiday sales to reach between $ 873 billion a
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Setting Fair Market Rents

In addition to funding residential housing developments, one of the many ways that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) supports low- and moderate-income families is by setting Fair Market Rents (FMR). Fair Market Rents, according to HUD’s documentation, &#
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Financial Dilemmas Face America and the Real Estate Market

Several dilemmas complicate the road to recovery for commercial real estate and the broader economy. National Real Estate Investor
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Investors See Stability In Commercial Real Estate Despite Weak Recovery

Investors surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) continue to see commercial real estate as a relative bright spot in the gloomy investment landscape. At the same time, stubbornly high unemployment and economic volatility has clearly dampened their enthusiasm for the asset class sinc
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CMBS Market Splits as Investors Avoid Taking on Risk

After a promising first half of the year, the CMBS market finds itself back in uncertain territory with the more than $ 4 billion of new deals currently in the marketplace getting mixed investor interest. The latest deals all involve public offerings that have been bolstered with extr
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