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Podcast: Green Goes Mainstream
Institutional investors are hungry for green buildings. This edition of our research podcast examines what companies are doing to build sustainable portfolios, and exactly what value the practice add
2015 Greenest Companies in Commercial Real Estate
Sustainable building and operation practices continue to shift into the mainstream as industry firms embrace the impact green building has on their triple bottom line.
HSBC Refinances Mixed-Use Asset in Boston’s Back Bay
HSBC has shelled out a pretty penny in first mortgage financing to Synergy Investments.
SSH Real Estate Promotes Muller to COO & Partner
SSH Real Estate, one of the largest commercial real estate firms in the Philadelphia region, has promoted Gregory Muller to COO & Partner.
2015 Top Mortgage Banks and Brokers
Mortgage banking professionals continue to do what they do best: find smart ways to help clients navigate the complicated business of borrowing. And their transactions should continue to ramp up over the next year, according to respondents to the 2015 CPE-MHN Top Mortgage Banking/Brokerage Firms survey.
February 2015 – Briefs/Leasing & Management
NGKF, TD Bank Sign with SL Green in Midtown Manhattan; Target Takes 900 KSF in Memphis; Verizon Wireless Signs NYC Flagship Lease with JEMB; Peak Campus Adds 3,155 Beds to Management Portfolio; KBS Secures 73 KSF in Chicago Leases; Philly Market Project Lands First Major Retail Tenant; Brookwood Inks 1.1 MSF of Leases in 2014.
February 2015 – Briefs/Sales & Development
Hudson Pacific to Buy $3.5B Blackstone Office Portfolio; World’s Fifth Largest Industrial Park Trades Hands; Clarion, MHP Take to Manhattan’s FiDi; TCC, MetLife Ride Dallas’ Tight Office-Market Wave; Vornado Sells Manhattan’s 1740 Broadway for $605M; Brookdale Revealed as Buyer of 777 Main in Fort Worth; Manulife, Allianz to Invest Up to $1B in U.S. CRE; MetLife Acquires Fairmont Hotel in DC.
February 2015 – Briefs/Finance
TPG Real Estate Acquires $2.5B Loan Portfolio from Deutsche; Citibank Provides $36.5M for Philly Office Acquisition; Meridian Arranges $135M in Financing for World’s Tallest Holiday Inn; HCP Prices $600 Million Senior Unsecured Notes Due 2025; Spirit Closes $510M A+ Rated Net-Lease Mortgage Notes; HFF Secures $140M for Omni San Diego; Apollo Completes More Than $1.5 B of CRE Debt Transactions in 2014; GE Capital Agents $500M Credit Facility for Brookdale Senior Living.
February 2015 – Briefs/People
C&W Grabs Massey Knakal; Silverstein Properties Appoints Kerret as President; BKM Capital Partners Adds Five to Team; NeighborWorks America Names New CEO; Stone Point Capital Grabs Situs, Makes Powel New CEO; ARCP’s Schorsch, Kay Say Goodbye; Bowles Named President of Kidder Mathews’ West Coast Brokerage; Wood Partners Hires Barrett as Director of Houston Office.
Return of the King: NYC Takes Back Global Investment Crown from London
The results are in for AFIRE’s 23rd annual survey of foreign investors in real estate. Multi-family is in favor, though Washington, D.C., is slipping.