Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Fraud in Real Estate JVs

As some properties have struggled, developers with multiple joint ventures are sometimes moving funds around to hide distress. National Real Estate Investor
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Barbarians or White Knights: What to Make of Private Equity’s Love of Real Estate

Long vilified for capitalizing on the misfortunes of others, private equity players can be heroes to commercial property owners in distress. National Real Estate Investor
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JLL Adds Pacific Real Estate Partners To Expand in Seattle, Portland

Jones Lang LaSalle gained significant market share in the Pacific Northwest this week, executing a long-rumored merger with Pacific Real Estate Partners (PREP) that expand JLL’s Seattle presence and establishes a beachhead in Portland. Pacific Real Estate’s 49 employees will join JLL’
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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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Learning Real Estate Consulting

With the guidance of real estate consulting, you’ll learn how to maximize your profits by investing in foreclosures and short sales. Most individuals look at the current state of the real estate market and see nothing but a black hole. But, you’ll learn that investing in t
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Las Vegas Investor’s Gamble Sets Precedent for Single-Asset Real Estate Owners

Las Vegas Investor’s Gamble Sets Precedent for Single-Asset Real Estate Owners National Real Estate Investor
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Savills Advises Chinese Commercial Real Estate Firm in $500 Million Shanghai Acquisition

Savills Advises Chinese Commercial Real Estate Firm in $ 500 Million Shanghai Acquisition National Real Estate Investor
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Rising Prices Signal Gains In Commercial Real Estate Demand at Mid-Year Ahead of Latest Market Jolts

In an analysis of commercial real estate sales completed through June of this year, investors showed a sharpened appetite for commercial property, with increasing demand pushing prices up in the second quarter, according to the latest release of the CoStar Commercial Repeat Sale Indic
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S&P Credit Rating Downgrade’s Impact on Commercial Real Estate

While S&P’s debt rating downgrade for the U.S. may not have come as a total surprise to investors, it’s important to understand the specific rationale the ratings firm cited for the downgrade, and perhaps more importantly, to understand what was not part of the reason for t
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