Allison Landa

Newmark Wins 1 MSF Office Assignment

Newmark Knight Frank has come out on top in a competitive bid to serve as exclusive office leasing agent for New Quincy Center, Street-Works Development L.L.C.’s $1 billion mixed-use project.

ULI Report: Too Much Capital, Too Few Assets

Too much capital chasing too few assets is compelling some investors to overpay, Ethan Penner contended during the Urban Land Institute’s capital markets conference. But the time will come when there are more opportunities than there is cash to pursue them.

CPE TV: U.S. Making a Strong Recovery

Peter Hobbs, senior director of group business development at IPD, discusses which countries and sectors are seeing the strongest returns.

Economy Watch: Greece Debates More Austerity

The Greek parliament began debate on an austerity plan for the country that has very few friends outside of the holders of Greek debt, finance panjandrums in the EU, and the likes of the IMF.

Dees Stribling’s Economy Watch Weekly

Economy Watch reporter Dees Stribling offers insights on CPE Radio into the top economic news of the week ending June 24 and what to watch out for in the coming week.

NAA Coverage: Echo Boomers Now Largest Apartment Group

Baby Boomers have been usurped in their position as the leading demographic group, and apartment marketers would do well to recognize the preferences of this age group versus those of their parents, suggested speakers at a session at the National Apartment Association Education Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.

Economy Watch: Home Sales, Oil Reserves

New home sales dropped 2.1 percent in May compared with April, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which was a drop, but not as much of a drop as economists had expected.

Gaylord Goes West

Gaylord Entertainment has selected High Point, a gargantuan master-planned business district being undertaken by LNR Property L.L.C.’s Commercial Property Investment Fund L.P. in Aurora, Colo., for its latest project. The hospitality and entertainment company will build an $800 million resort and convention hotel on 85 acres at LNR’s sprawling development.

Analysis: NAI Purchase Reflective of Corporate America

Real estate investment company C-III Capital Partners L.L.C.’s announcement that it will acquire NAI Global — combining its commercial real estate loan servicing, loan origination, fund management and principal investment activities with the largest network of independent commercial real estate firms in the world — turned heads in the industry, but the deal says just as much about where the country is going as it does about the real estate market.

Acquisition of NAI Global Bolsters C-III’s Market Presence

NAI — whose network comprises 5,000 employees and 350 offices in the U.S. as well as 55 countries worldwide — will continue to operate as a separate company. The firm provides corporate, financial, technology and project management services.