The ongoing recession has had a profound impact on commercial real estate throughout the United States: More and more landlords and tenants are struggling to survive. As a result, most property managers…

Selling foreclosed real estate for the FDIC was supposed to be a As opportunities for new retail development have dwindled in recent years, REITs that have traditionally specialized in building regional malls started…

The industry’s greatest problem these days isn’t the slow economy or lack of movement; it’s the pervading sense of negativity among market participants. That was the general consensus of the experts on the Industry Leaders Panel, a featured session during…

Whither the American shopping mall? That was the question pondered Sunday by a panel of three leading Wall Street analysts, moderated by this story’s author, at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ Pathway to the…

Selling foreclosed real estate for the FDIC was supposed to be a bonanza for the brokerages such as CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. and Cushman & Wakefield Inc. that contracted to do so during the recession. But so far…

What a difference a year makes. At last year’s RealShare Apartments conference, the general mood was decidedly cautious. Today, the wariness is still though, but now it’s just a faint undercurrent. The more obvious sentiment among the 1,200-plus attendees at RealShare Apartments 2010, held today at the Westin Bonaventure in Downtown Los Angeles, is one of optimism…

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s primary objective or mission statement, it is safe to say, is not to give a boost to the still lackluster capital markets. But that is what it is going to accomplish when it goes to market…

Survey respondents say sales activity will increase across all property types in 2011, but their expectations are tempered by uncertainty about the economy…

It wasn’t more than two years ago that commercial real estate began a brutal downhill slide with no apparent end in sight, as investors and developers braced for…

The nation’s apartment market strengthened in the third quarter, with national vacancies seeing one of the sharpest declines on record, according to new data released Wednesday by Reis Inc. Robust demand allowed landlords to modestly increase rents for…