Tax Fight Over Empire State Building

One view is that some investors will pay more tax than they will get in proceeds if the IPO flies.

By Ron Gallagher • April 9, 2012

Goodbye Freddie and Fannie

Advisers all stand to gain from winding down the agencies. Ask a home builder whether it should happen, and you will get a whole other answer.

By Ron Gallagher • April 9, 2012

CMBS Delinquencies Spike Again in March

The next 12 months will see nearly $67 billion of CMBS loans due to mature, about 13% of which are already in special servicing, says Morningstar.

By Ron Gallagher • April 9, 2012

AIG Provides $90M Retail Acquisition Loan

AIG has become more active in the market lately, Walker & Dunlop's Paul Wallace tells GlobeSt.com's Erika Morphy.

By Ron Gallagher • April 9, 2012

Building Trades President Mark Ayers Is Dead

Neither the cause nor the location of his April 8 death were released.

By Ron Gallagher • April 8, 2012

CoreLogic Home Price Index Inches Up From January to February

With distressed sales filtered out, the increase was 0.7%, but year-over-year was down.

By Ron Gallagher • April 6, 2012

Construction Employment Fell from Feb. to March, but Is Up From 2010

Federal numbers show the construction unemployment rate is about steady month-to-month, but has decreased from a year ago.

By Ron Gallagher • April 6, 2012

Deutsche Bank Study: Home-Owning Is 15% Cheaper Than Renting

It's a change. In the past, renting had consistently been about 10 percent cheaper than buying.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

Macquarie Plans $2B for U.S., Canadian Infrastructure

The Australian bank is the world's largest investor in infrastructure assets.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

14 Wall St. Gets $300M Recap

A Russian investor paid off mezzanine financing on the million-square-foot building.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

Education Construction: Heating Up or Cooling Off?

It depends on where you look. The value of Rhode Island projects fell 81% and the value of North Dakota's rose 90% from 2010.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

Deutsche, Guggenheim, Near $2B Asset Management Deal?

News reports have the German firm ready to sell the business, but the official word is that talks are still going on.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

In First 'CPE 100' Executive Survey, Washington Gridlock Spoils the Party

As Commercial Property Executive its inaugural poll of 100 leaders in the business, their Washington worries were apparent.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

NAHB: Improving Markets Index Tops 100 in April

Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have metro areas that data show are rising from market-bottom values.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

Construction Costs Likely Up in ’12 – But How Much?

The swirling numbers of a downturn and recovery make it hard to get the important knowledge of what a job is costing.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

Office Vacancies Decline Slightly

Economic caution kept employers from adding a lot of space.

By Ron Gallagher • April 5, 2012

More About Michigan: Court's Decision Could Make 'Non-Recourse' Moot

An appeals court let a lender go after a guarantor for losses on a loan for a strip mall, and the impact of that decision has riveted real estate attorneys' attention.

By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2012

NAHB/Wells Fargo: Confidence, Home Prices Trending Upward

The analysis sees a positive slope for 2012 – unless something goes wrong again. It's about cautious confidence.

By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2012

Is the Cap-Rate Valuation Model Valid Yet?

Commercial real estate offers some tremendous opportunities – if you bought at a deep discount with cash, and did so without forward-looking debt service.

By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2012

Finding Value in Dollar-Store and Drugstore Net-Lease Properties

Retail dynamics are changing, and not many investment-grade properties are available to accommodate it.

By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2012

Deals: Colliers Sells a Landmark L.A. Loft Property

News about deals involving multifamily housing properties from around the nation.

By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2012

Contractors Are Renting More, Buying Less

Equipment rentals have flourished as a means of lowering overhead expenses by trimming debt, licensing fees, taxes, insurance and maintenance.

By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2012

Owning Regains Appeal as Rents Keep Rising

The recession pushed more people into renting, and now rising demand for apartments is driving others to consider taking the plunge to buy.

By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2012

Rowdy 'Class of 2007' Loans Causing Problems

Five-year financing from the height of the bubble are coming due this year, but property values aren't coming coming back to those values.

By Ron Gallagher • April 3, 2012

Michigan Case Puts a Chill in the Air About Commercial Foreclosures

The court upheld debt-holders' suing a strip-mall owner personally after his property-holding company went belly-up.

By Ron Gallagher • April 3, 2012