Property Metrics

Emerging Trends: CRE Profitability, Lending Look Bright for Remainder of 2012

The Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers have released the results of the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate survey — and the responses point to a stronger commercial real estate outlook for the remainder of 2012, with a general trend toward a bullish CRE industry.

New York City Spotlight: Top Dollar

(top 10 New York City commercial transactions, January 1 to March 30, 2012; $ in millions)

Positive Story

(CMBS delinquencies by property type)

Innisfree Gets $57M Loan for Three Gulf-Coast Hotels

With the assistance of Aries Capital, Innisfree Hotels has received $57 million in financing for three of its hotels along the Gulf Coast just weeks in advance of maturity dates on existing loans.

Washington Gridlock Clouds Leaders’ Brightening Outlook

Amid signs that the real estate industry is rebounding, policy gridlock in the nation’s capital poses the biggest long-term threat to the real estate capital markets, according to the CPE 100 Quarterly Sentiment Survey. The findings emerged from the inaugural national poll of industry leaders by Commercial Property Executive.

Guest Column: The Cherryland Decision—Full-Recourse Enforcement of Non-Recourse Loans

The economic decline in the real estate market has forced many CMBS borrowers into default. That can trigger full-recourse provisions to guarantors under non-recourse guaranties.

Results of the CPE 100 Quarterly Sentiment Survey

ULI: Industry to See Improvements Through 2014, Bolstered by Cap Markets

“Is distress in the real estate markets behind us?” was the main question on the minds of the respondents to the latest survey by the Urban Land Institute — and the consensus seemed to be a cautious “yes.”

IPD Conference: Unfinished Business Hampers Cap Markets' Rebound

Real estate capital markets present a mixed bag of promise and unresolved issues left over from the Great Recession, according to the leading economists, analysts and financiers who spoke at a forum sponsored by IPD in New York City.

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