17 April 2011
By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY The once-dismal commercial real estate market is turning around far more quickly than analysts expected, with troubled loans falling, occupancy rising and office building sales surging in the largest markets. That’s welcome news for an economic recovery that still faces headwinds such as rising oil prices. The improving market has [...]
15 July 2010
Jul 13, 2010 8:34 AM, By Victor Calanog, Contributing Columnist When will the retail sector recover? The answer depends on how recovery is defined. Property owners consider a drop in vacancies and a reversal from negative to positive rent growth as the first signs of a recovery. Some investors define recovery as the point at [...]
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15 July 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010, by Dakota Remember two years ago when developer Bond Cos was going to put up a big mixed-use housing and retail project on the site of the Little Joe’s Restaurant in Chinatown? A Community Redevelopment Agency project, the whole development disappeared after Bond Cos filed for bankruptcy on the project in [...]
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21 May 2010
May 21, 2010 11:11 AM, By Denise Kalette, NREI Managing Editor Apartment owners got a taste of encouraging news in the first quarter, as vacancy rates for all rental buildings with at least five units declined to 12.1% from 12.5% in the previous quarter, according a National Multi-Housing Council (NMHC) report released Thursday. For investment-grade [...]
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21 May 2010
By Julianne Pepitone, staff reporterMay 18, 2010: 10:34 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — New home construction skyrocketed 40.9% in April compared to last year, according to a government report released Tuesday. Housing starts increased to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 672,000 last month, the Commerce Department said. That was a 5.8% rise over March [...]
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21 May 2010
By: Diana Olick CNBC Real Estate Reporter Some encouraging signs on the foreclosure front may not be as rosy as some are reporting. RealtyTrac, the online foreclosure sale site, shows a 9 percent dip in the number of properties with foreclosure filings in April, month-to-month. The driver of that dip is a big drop in [...]
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30 April 2010
Apr 30, 2010 7:40 PM, By Joe Caton, NREI Not only have signs of life returned to commercial real estate finance, but there are also signs that the capital markets are on the mend. As 2010 began, analysts called for about $20 billion in new issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). But by the beginning [...]
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30 April 2010
By Les Christie, staff writerApril 29, 2010: 12:10 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Foreclosure filings declined in more than half of the country’s worst-hit spots in the first three months of 2010. But that doesn’t mean the healing has begun. In a release issued Thursday, RealtyTrac, a leading online marketer of foreclosed homes, reported [...]
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30 April 2010
Written by Mana Tulberg, www.venturacountyrealestatetalk.com On April 5, 2010, the Federal Government’s new short sale guidelines known as Home Affordable Foreclosure Avoidance Program (HAFA) went into effect. These new guidelines, once implemented, will have a huge impact on Ventura County’s real estate market. The Federal Government’s goal is to streamline the incredibly cumbersome short sale [...]
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26 April 2010
By Les Christie, staff writerApril 22, 2010: 4:44 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — If you’re delinquent on your mortgage, your credit score will suffer. Everyone knows that. The question is, by how much? Until recently, those answers were hard to come by. Credit bureaus were uncommunicative about expressing, in points, just how much impact [...]
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