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Is there enough first-position debt capital to meet the needs of expiring commercial property loans in the next few years?

By Robert Lehman, Director of REIT Services, Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young’s Global Real Estate Center recently surveyed 82 chief financial officers running North America’s top real estate investment trusts. The survey revealed that many of the nation’s top REITs are feeling positive about their business prospects.

By Robert Bach,National Director, Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: As home prices are bottoming, sales are going up and housing is the most affordable it has been in nearly 40 years, now is a good time to sell your apartment property.

By Bradley Feller, Associate Director, Stan Johnson Co. :The low interest rates and slow economic growth that have gripped the United States since the onset of the Great Recession have made it difficult for investors to find yield in the capital markets.

By Bruce Davis, Senior Partner, Lee & Associates Atlanta: The recent discovery that Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) may be impure and has been manipulated is one more element of disgust that investors are finding with large money center controls in the marketplace.

By Marcelo Bermúdez, President, Figueroa Capital Group, a subsidiary of Charles Dunn Co.: What seems to be different today is that we’re actually seeing inflation fall and innovation increase. But I am still a big believer that unemployment needs a new approach to cure its ills.