Business Specialties

Transwestern Brokers Sale of 150 KSF FL Retail Asset

The Orlando Class A shopping center spans 15 acres and is shadow-anchored by Walmart and Lowe’s Home Improvement Store.

How to Build the Best Team and Finish On Time

In a candid podcast interview, Sarah Barnat discusses her strategy for tackling a complicated, $21 million mixed-use project in Beverly, Mass., Holmes Beverly, which won her this year’s Member to Member Impact Award from CREW.

Former Sears in Mentor, Ohio

CBRE Tapped to Sell Former Sears Stores in OH

The two assets, which encompass approximately 648,000 square feet, are located in Mentor at the Great Lakes Mall and in Middleburg Heights at Southland Shopping Center.

Atlanta Marriott Gets $57M Refi

Integrated Capital has nearly finished $14 million of renovations at the 344-key hotel. The new loan retires a $52.8 million prior mortgage held by Emigrant Bank.

Peachtree Hotel Group Trades Jacksonville Sheraton

The buyer, a joint venture between Rockbridge and Hospitality Ventures Management Group, plans to invest more than $1 million in renovations.

Douglas Development Buys $12M MD Office Property

Transwestern represented the seller in its disposition of 116 Defense Highway, an 81,931-square-foot building that was 70 percent leased at the time of sale.

Anne Kinsella Thompson

How Big Data, Machine Learning are Shaping CRE Finance

A new white paper from the MIT Center for Real Estate examines changes and trends in commercial real estate financing that are being driven by these technologies.

Eric Jordan

Health-Care Financing Considerations

Calmwater Capital’s Eric Jordan analyzes the trends generating demand for the specialty asset category and the factors leading lenders to reassess risk.

Hiring Trends Buoy Suburban Rent Growth

Transwestern’s Jim Cardellicchio offers his perspective on why office and industrial properties outside of urban hubs are becoming increasingly attractive to investors and lenders.

New Construction, Pricing Pose Risks to REITs

Nareit Senior Vice President of Research & Economic Analysis Calvin Schnure assesses the extent to which overbuilding could undermine future valuations.