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…

The road is clear. Lenders have given the green light. Office investors sit in the driver’s seat, poised to push the transaction pedal to the metal. But when they stomp on the accelerator…

The last time inRegister checked with Hank Saurage, in September 2001, he was president of the Arts Council of Baton Rouge and recently voted Volunteer Activist. His real estate business of 10 years had grown to a total of 80 staff and agents…

Commercial real estate performance generally lags economic growth by about four to six quarters. As our firm, ING Clarion Partners, suggested earlier this year, 2010 appears to be a transition year, moving from the steep downturn of 2009 toward…