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National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Parke Chapman |
Apartments: Recovery After the Storm Excess supply collides with weak demand, growing unemployment and low interest rates that turn renters into homeowners. Still, despite falling occupancy rates and rising concessions, investors continue to chase apartment deals. Why?   |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Matt Valley |
Forecast 2003 As 2002 limps across the finish line, the men and women who run the commercial real estate industry are looking to the Middle East for hints of what 2003 will bring. Industry execs agree that until the Iraq conflict is resolved the economic recovery won't gain any substantial momentum. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Mike Fickes |
Grabbing Market Share The nation's four largest title insurance companies are competing to develop technology capable of delivering complex commercial real estate transactions with just a few clicks of the mouse. The prize? A larger market share in the highly profitable commercial real estate space. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Steve Webb |
Hotels: Still Too Much Room at the Inn No other corner of the commercial real estate industry has been victim to as many converging trends as the hotel sector: Corporations are cutting back on business trips, families are still avoiding airline travel and virtually everyone has less money to spend. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Jessica Miller |
Industrial: In Search of Stability For real estate investors seeking stability, warehouse space looks like a safe bet. The stalwart of the industrial sector, warehouse space is viewed as a smart defensive play because of its stable returns and short development timeline. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Jessica Miller |
Office Properties: The Worst Could Be Ahead After hotels, the office sector is the biggest victim of the soft economy. And unlike the retail, industrial and multifamily sectors, experts predict that office fundamentals will continue to crumble before improvement begins some time in 2004. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Michael D. Goodwin |
Recapitalizing for the Long Haul This is the dilemma: the new investor requires the building to be transferred to a new venture, but the transfer to a new venture requires the developer to recognize taxable gain. Regulations finalized last year by the IRS have resolved this dilemma. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Matt Gove |
Retail: Will Consumers Keep Spending? Retail real estate executives say that their business is set for a year of rising rents and stable occupancy rates, after rents fell by 1% and vacancies edged up a half-percentage point in 2002. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Margy Sweeney |
Think Big -- in Small Towns In the past, national investors feared that it would be difficult to fill space in a secondary market if a tenant defaulted. Now there is a steady stream of major customers such as IKEA that want to locate in secondary markets, and major developers are lining up to accommodate them. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2002
Matt Valley |
Zell: Still the Contrarian Frequently a contrarian and always irreverent, Sam Zell, the chairman of Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP) and Equity Residential Properties Trust (EQR) -- two bellwether real estate investment trusts -- talks about his business and how he sees the industry shaping up in 2003. |
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