Why, when a market is on the slide, its longer-term outlook shrouded in uncertainty and the risks around it mainly on the downside, would you decide to stick your money in anyway?
3 min read · 22 September 2016
With news that One World Trade Center (1 WTC) in downtown Manhattan may be up for sale comes a financing opportunity of massive proportions.
3 min read · 15 September 2016
Last Wednesday, 31 August, a JetBlue Airways flight left Fort Lauderdale, Florida and landed at an airport east of Havana, Cuba, marking the first US commercial passenger flight to the Caribbean island nation in over five decades.
2 min read · 08 September 2016
CRE sustainability initiatives protect lenders against risk while helping to reduce the environmental impacts of commercial buildings.
3 min read · 01 September 2016
Starwood, which is led by Barry Sternlicht (pictured), is said to have been pondering whether to re-brand its real estate loan servicing and advisory businesses, LNR and Hatfield Philips International (HPI), ever since it acquired them in 2013.
3 min read · 25 August 2016
New data shows that UK property values have fallen, but lenders are keeping their cool during the summer slowdown.
3 min read · 18 August 2016
Lenders and developers fueled a record amount of new student housing supply in the US, but the drop in student enrollment should be a cause for concern Student housing has seen a record amount of new supply enter the market each fall for several years now, much of which is considered class A product, according […]
3 min read · 11 August 2016
Until now developers have sought to capitalize on the greater returns offered by the residential market, but the landlords’ market is turning as prices and rents level off.
3 min read · 04 August 2016
Amid the continuing uncertainty following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, LaSalle has put its best foot forward. Will others follow? News this week that LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) had put together a £110 million debt package to support a housing scheme in London’s Finsbury Park may have raised a few eyebrows. After all, in […]
3 min read · 28 July 2016
Regulators are proposing more lenient capital treatment for ‘safe, transparent and comparable’ types of securitisation. CMBS does not appear to have made the cut. Last week, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published updated proposals intended to define ‘safe, transparent and comparable’ (STC) forms of securitisation. CMBS was not explicitly excluded, but it seems apparent […]
3 min read · 21 July 2016
