At the start of the year, David Neithercut, the chief executive of Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust, set a target of $1 billion to spend on apartment buildings across the country…

Capital availability has improved since the dark beginning of the recession. This year the real estate capital markets came off life support, although they still remain in intensive care. Well-capitalized firms and owners are taking advantage of inexpensive money. Real estate investment trusts have been able to raise funds in both…

The Halloween Final Circuit Stop of 2010 proved to be a…

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…