Anna Spiewak
Achieving Success
We have been producing our Executive of the Year Awards, in some format, for 18 years now. Determined by a peer vote but based on a ballot put together by our editorial team, the awards honor top-level commercial real estate executives for achievements and strategies of the past year.
BGC to Acquire ARA for $110M
Global brokerage company BGC Partners, parent of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, is buying Apartment Realty Advisors for approximately $110 million.
StreetEasy Manhattan Condo Market Report: Pending Sales Surged 31% in October
The October StreetEasy Manhattan Condo Market Report revealed a flurry of activity from both buyers and sellers, which accounted for a 31 percent jump in pending sales from September to October, the largest monthly gain since May 2013.
Economy Watch: Black Friday Sales, GSEs’ Serious Delinquencies
Black Friday by itself isn’t quite the sales driver it once was. The Single-Family Serious Delinquency rate declined from 1.96 percent in September to 1.92 percent in October.
Industry Groups Unveil New Space Measurement Standard
A new international standard for measuring space in office buildings will lead to increased transparency and consistency in global commercial real estate markets.
Economy Watch: Residential Price Increases, Revised GDP Numbers, Household Debt
The deceleration of residential prices continues. U.S. real gross domestic product increased at an annualized rate of 3.9 percent in the third quarter of 2014. Aggregate U.S. household debt increased a bit during the third quarter of 2014
PointOne Grabs 377 KSF Office Portfolio in Birmingham
A joint venture between PointOne Holdings and ESJ Partners has bought a 377,9321-square-foot office portfolio in one of Bingham’s most desired submarkets, for $51 million.
December Issue: U.S. Politics–Dawn of a New Age?
The commercial real estate industry turns to the Republican Congress to move meaningful legislation forward.
Blackstone JV Sells 2-Building Portfolio; National, Bulfinch Sell Office Edifice, Both in Cambridge, Mass.
The weather might be cooling off a lot, but all that brainpower in Cambridge, Mass., seems to be heating up the CRE market there, since two office transactions were announced Friday that totaled three buildings and 670,000 square feet.