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Hope Puts Spring in Home Builders’ Stocks

January 18, 2012

The stocks of home builders, shunned by investors for most of the past year, are suddenly in vogue again.

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Investors Check Out of Real-Estate Stocks

October 5, 2011

For much of the past two years, real-estate stocks outperformed the broader stock market. But that trend ended during the fall as investors grew increasingly fretful that a weak global economy would sap demand for commercial space.

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Name Change Is in Store

September 28, 2011

One of Blackstone Group’s biggest prizes of the past year is getting a new name, the Hyatt Regency New Orleans is reopening next month, and Willis Tower’s new name is starting to stick.

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EU’s Office Market Gears for Slowdown

August 24, 2011

Europe’s commercial-property market, which for the past two years has been slowly recovering from the depths of the financial crisis, is starting to weaken again due to fears of a global recession.

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Commercial Real Estate Slowly Turning Around « Washington Bank …

June 5, 2011

Sales and leasing volumes in commercial real estate have turned a corner and are heading up, but because the past few years have been so difficult, the upturn barely feels like one. … That's a bit surprising, because the big-four national banks — Wells Fargo, Citibank, Chase, and Bank of America — are in a far better position to make loans. Not only are they sitting on piles of money, but because they've grown to the point where they're too big to fail, …

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Phoenix high-rise deal averts foreclosure

June 5, 2011

The challenges of managing commercial real estate had been so daunting that many commercial – real-estate lenders had tried to prevent or delay having to foreclose whenever possible. However, in the past six months, …

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Jodi Summers = Office Real Estate » THE SOCAL OFFICE REAL ESTATE …

June 5, 2011

Several recent indicators suggest an easing of investment capital for real estate transaction. CoStar notes that life insurers have become more active lenders ; new CMBS offerings are hitting the street; syndicators are starting to assemble new … Commercial real estate lending is down 75% from peak levels, but it rebounded in the past 12 months. It was up 88% in the first quarter of 2011 from the first quarter of 2010, according to CoStar Group. …

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Boom Goes Bust; Deal Maker Shifts Tack

May 18, 2011

In the past three years, Scott Lawlor lost Boston’s tallest skyscraper to foreclosure and became a high-profile example of the commercial-property industry’s excesses. Now he is close to signing up a partner to go shopping with.

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