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5 Steps to Transacting a Sale-Leaseback

By Camille Renshaw, CCIM, Director, Stan Johnson Co.: Most company CEOs and CFOs understand the value and importance of managing real estate on the books to support an enterprise’s short- and long-term goals.

As Confidence Peaks, so Does Deal Making

By Michael Fishbin, Global Hospitality Leader, Ernst & Young: Global economic confidence continues to improve as credit availability expands, industry fundamentals strengthen and companies focus on growth.

Quest for the Right Deal

By Joseph Chavez, President, Lee & Associates Investment Services Group: In CRE, the search for the right deal is the quest of every player in this business. But what constitutes the right deal?

Rates, Confidence Rising

By Marcelo Bermúdez, President, Figueroa Capital Group, subsidiary of Charles Dunn Co.: This month’s jobs report showed a 200,000-unit increase compared to the month prior. Assuming the economy can maintain that level of job creation consistently, the U.S. can break the 7 percent threshold by June 2014, which is less than one year away.

Sustainable Savings

The winners of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment’s Top 10 Green Projects awards have accomplished some significant sustainability achievements. Among them are some pioneering new strategies for retaining, treating and re-using rainwater, gray water—and even black water in radical cases.

Commercial real estate is moving from the recovery cycle into an expansion cycle.

— Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

Positive Prognosis

Banking sector produces fewer distressed real estate assets.

Measuring Money

Malcolm Davies Evaluates the Real Estate Finance Market George Smith Partners partner Malcolm Davies discussed the direction of the financing market with Editorial Director Suzann D. Silverman. Davies joined the real estate investment banking firm in 2011 having spent 12 years as a real estate developer, investor and capital provider. Q.You were a developer. What are the prospects for getting development projects financed as the market comes back? A. I got the last privately financed construction loan in San Diego County when I was a developer in early ’08. … In 2010 and ’11, really all you were seeing in…