As the “extend and pretend” period of the Great Recession wanes into a period of true loan modifications, lenders and note holders appear to be forcing more distressed loans into the marketplace.

Property owners seeking a buyer to take a distressed office building off their hands should consider marketing to corporate space occupiers as well as conventional investors.

I had written previously about a Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT). This is a tax that may be imposed by states, parishes or municipalities upon the Act of Sale and transfer of ownership of real estate within the proposed jurisdiction. Real Estate Transfer taxes can vary across the country from very small (.01% in Colorado) to fairly large (4% in Pittsburgh)…

NEW YORK – Commercial real estate, particularly the multifamily market, won’t be as severely impacted as other sectors by the recent economic slowdown, Standard & Poors’ downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and turmoil in global financial markets, according to a new report by CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.

Baton Rouge-based DIG Magazine’s latest cover story, Up or Out: Grow Forth and Prosper, focuses on the 2011 Smart Growth Summit and varying perspectives on what Smart Growth could mean for the Capital City.

CCIM Institute submitted a letter on July 29, 2011, to six federal agencies (Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Department of Housing and Urban Development) commenting on a proposed rule on credit risk retention.

The threat of an imminent rise in interest and capitalization rates abated Tuesday, courtesy of the Federal Reserve’s plan to suppress short-term interest rates for the next two years.

Many investors ignore the return on investment that property condition assessments often can deliver…

In a sign the economic recovery’s recent stumbles may be Spilling over into the real-estate market, employers took on less office space during the second quarter than earlier in the year…

After an economic winter, shoots of business life in recent months have burst forth along the Interstate 12 corridor in Livingston, Tangipahoa and St. Tammany parishes…