Economy: Page 155
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Builder Confidence in 55+ Market Rises Across All Components
It appears that the market for all types of homes for aging baby boomers is looking up.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2012 -
Tom Fish on Financing Requirements
Video of the Jones Lang LaSalle leader from the MBA CREF conference in Atlanta.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2012 -
Report from Atlanta: Banks Wary About Overbuilding in Key Apartment Markets
Construction lenders say the apartment boom already has them watching some markets carefully.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2012 -
Economy Watch: Nervousness Grows (Again) About Greece
Greece is still a worry, but the Conference Board Employment Trends Index rose 0.73 points in January.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2012 -
CBRE Brokers 1.2M-SF Portfolio Sale to Crow Holdings
The deal encompasses 10 assets in Dallas and Houston.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Volumes Up in 2011
Freddie Mac did $20.3 billion in business in multifamily housing last year, a jump of 32% from 2010.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Economy, Election Focus of MBA CREF12 Opening Session
The difference between how business works and how politics works, or doesn't, was a topic.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Small Bump in Non-res Construction Seen for 2012 – but 6.4% in 2013
A forecast by architects, adjusted for a weak end to 2011, says 2.1% growth this year, 6.4% next year.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
MBA: 10% of Non-Bank Commercial/Multifamily Debt Will Mature in 2012
Non-bank mortgages coming due during this year involve 3% less debt than mantured in 2011, bankers say.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
Camden Increases 2012 FFO Guidance by 13%
The REIT's executives said they see demand growing faster than supply in multifamily this year.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2012 -
America: Land of Fewer Homeowners
Ownership in the fourth-quarter of 2011 continued a slide begun in 2004.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Home Building CEOs: Cautious Optimism for 2012
Beazer, Pulte, M/I executives remember that some people had predicted 2011 would be a turnaround year.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
10 States Where Homeowners Carry the Most Mortgage Ddebt
The blog 24/7 Wall St. looked at a recent Credit Karma report to find the 10 states with the highest average mortgage debt.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
While Pundits Debate Green Jobs, We’re Busy Putting America Back to Work
It seems like a lot of Americans wonder what Congress is fighting over about creating jobs.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
New Construction Starts in December Decline 3% to Take 2011 Total Down 2%
New construction starts in December fell 3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $410 billion.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Deal Paralysis is Over, Observes Oaktree's Liker
Todd T. Liker of Oaktree Capital Management spoke at the Transwestern/Real Estate Forum Capital Markets Symposium.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Casimir: In Opportunistic Space, Cash Will Be King
Investment will be shy about value-add and opportunistis plays TIAA-CREF’s Gerald Casimir said.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Credit Market Fallout Is Just Starting, Says AEW's Plumb
As CMBS debt matures over the next three years, “It’s going to be awful,” says Robert J. Plumb of AEW Capital Management
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Massive Balance Sheet Repositioning Under Way, Says Leitner
RREEF’s Charles B. Leitner sees a massive repositioning of corporate, consumer and government balance sheets under way.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Debt Maturities Will Bring Distress Opportunities for Equity
Brian Watkins of Clarion Partners said $1.2 trillion of debt will come due between 2012 and 2015.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Compare Opportunities on the Basis, Says Boneham
Paul Boneham of Bentall Kennedy expects 60% of the firm's investments to go into core assets this year
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
Apples to Oranges to Kilowatts: Energy Measures Need a Yardstick That Works
You can measure power use, but knowing what it's being used for is a harder question.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 2, 2012 -
59 of 100 Top Metro Areas Have Added Jobs Since 2009
The overall increase, mostly in the services sector, was 1.2 million jobs.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 2, 2012 -
Latest Grubb & Ellis Potential Investor Leaves Talks Without Agreement
Two weeks of exclusive negotiations between Grubb & Ellis Co. and BGC Partners expired without a deal.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 1, 2012 -
Home Builders: Shovel-Ready Markets
A new study looks at where in the nation home construction seems to be perking up.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 1, 2012
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