EU summit may not calm investors for long (Reuters)

Reuters – Last week’s EU summit went a long way towards forging the closer economic ties needed to prevent future debt crises but markets are likely to judge it as too little and too late to solve the current one, and as on previous occasions the measures are unlikely to c
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Global Hotel Investors Remain Steady in Q3, Despite Economic Headwinds

According to STR Analytics’ Hotel Investors Gauge, debt and equity trends remained steady during the third quarter despite hiccups in the global marketplace. “Although the national and global economies seem to be on a rollercoaster ride of late, hotel investment continues
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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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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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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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Quarterly Retail Update: Investors Respond To Improving Conditions for Shopping Center Owners, Tenants

Retail property sales volume bounced back from the doldrums in the first half of 2011, with $ 19.4 billion in assets trading in the second quarter alone — three times the volume of 2009, CoStar economists said. While overall investment sales volume has returned to 2007 levels, a
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