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National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman
Tenuous Office Recovery Boston's metropolitan market continues to lag the national office recovery -- and observers question if the market's near-term leasing momentum is sustainable. They cite two stubborn trends: an active mergers and acquisitions market, and a soft local economy. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
November 5, 2002
Parke Chapman
Report: Manhattan office sales volume up 14% Manhattan's office sales market is booming despite a sluggish leasing climate that has kept vacancy high. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2003
Parke Chapman
A Supply Glut In the Office Sector Over the past two years, as office markets softened, industry pundits predicted that things would not get as bad as they did in the last recession because this time the market was not overbuilt. It looks like they were wrong. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
December 3, 2002
Parke Chapman
Boston Properties to sell Midtown building Global Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy the 29-story, Class-A office building. The sale will allow the Boston-based REIT to pare down its debt. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2005
Joe Gose
The Office Investment Gamble Several office markets battered by the tech wreck that jolted Wall Street and led to a recession four years ago are still plagued by double-digit vacancies. But that hasn't fazed investors, who are generally paying more for properties today than they were in 2001 when the buildings were filled with tenants. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
December 2, 2002
Parke Chapman
John Hancock to sell Boston trophy tower The number of insurers paring their real estate portfolios underscores how poorly the industry has done. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2003
Chapman & Valley
Rational Exuberance? Late last year, as conditions in the office sector declined and price tags for buildings continued to rise, industry pundits warned of a possible investment bubble. Still, it looks like the bubble remains more of a threat than a present danger. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2005
Joe Gose
Why Office Owners Can't Resist the Quick Flip Are private investment funds turning into short-term holders of office assets in return for fast profits, or are they simply taking full advantage of the wide-open capital spigot that's flooding the property markets? mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2011
Michele Lerner
Office Investment Magnet Experts believe Washington, D.C.'s real estate fundamentals are in place to keep the local office market healthy for the remainder of 2011. mark for My Articles similar articles
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2006
Charles Keenan
Keen Eyes Beacon Capital Partners knows a bargain when it sees one. Since its debut eight years ago, the private real estate fund and asset manager has been snapping up office properties at a fast clip, outbidding rivals and paying top dollar. This year is no exception. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2006
Beth Mattson-Teig
Twin Cities Harbor Hidden Office Buys On the surface, the Minneapolis-St. Paul office market appears to be plodding along at a steady, yet unremarkable clip. But a closer look reveals a market that is bubbling with activity. mark for My Articles similar articles
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2004
Beth Mattson-Teig
How High Can They Go? Investors pay top dollar to acquire premium office properties. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2007
Deals & Projects Hines has acquired 2100 M Street NW in Washington, D.C. for an undisclosed price... Normandy Real Estate Partners has acquired a pair of Boston office buildings for a total of $73 million... mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
January 28, 2003
Downtown Baltimore office tower sells for $50M A 380,000 sq. ft. office building in downtown Baltimore has sold for $50 million. Norfolk-Va. Based Harbor Group International (HGI) and a corporate investor bought the property, known as the First Union Tower, as part of a tax-deferred exchange. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2005
Parke M. Chapman
A Flipper's Paradise An insatiable demand for commercial real estate is prompting investors to put new acquisitions back on the selling block -- a practice known as flipping. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2006
Laura Ellis
The Nissan Effect Nashville's commercial real estate market is riding high on the automaker's announcement that it will relocate its North American headquarters from Gardena, California, to the Country Music Capital by the end of 2007. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2006
Morris Newman
San Francisco's Bipolar Office Market Riding a High Investors in the seemingly bipolar San Francisco office market appear ready to bounce back. After three years of slow recovery, downtown San Francisco is ready to relegate the tech fiasco to the past. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
May 27, 2003
Parke Chapman
Chicago's CBD Vacancies Decline, But Troubles Persist Chicago's CBD office vacancy declined by almost half a percentage point during the first quarter, according to a report from CB Richard Ellis. Within the next few months, several large tenants will vacate substantial chunks of space. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
September 23, 2003
Parke Chapman
Office REIT Stung By Competitive Manhattan Market A decision last week by law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to lease 450,000 sq. ft. at One World Financial Center was terrific news for lower Manhattan and WFC landlord Brookfield Properties, but quite the opposite for Boston Properties. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2005
Nicholas Yulico
Betting on a Rebound A surge in San Francisco leasing activity has propelled investors to pay record prices for trophy buildings in recent months. Skeptics wonder whether buyers are wise to bet on a recovery that may still be a ways off. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2004
Matt Hudgins
Office Development Plans Resurface in Austin Why have two developers rekindled development plans for office buildings here? The answer involves nuances of the city's geography, political climate, and historic patterns of business development. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
Sibley Fleming
Tearing Up Peachtree Tearing up Peachtree Street, which runs through downtown Atlanta and the office markets of Midtown and Buckhead, is another way of saying there's a lot of construction going on. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2002
Matt Kelly
Boston's High-Tech Hangover Boston is an anxious place these days. Gone is the stellar real estate market of a few years ago. A malaise of high vacancy rates, falling rents and a development pipeline that clogged at the first hint of a recession have replaced the salad days of 2000. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2006
Jeanne Lang Jones
Seattle's Day in the Sun Because of the strengthening economy, vacancy rates and rents are improving in the Puget Sound's two largest office submarkets -- Seattle and Bellevue, a suburban city located on the east side of Lake Washington about a 30-minute drive from downtown Seattle. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
March 23, 2004
JV To Redevelop Historic Boston Office Property for Residential Use A 231,125 sq. ft. office building located in downtown Boston has sold for $27.5 million. The buyers --- a joint venture between the Cresset Group and Third Sector New England --- plan to convert part of Lincoln Plaza for residential use. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman
Ground Zero Waiting Game Above-market asking rents and political bickering over Ground Zero's future are foiling developer Larry Silverstein in his quest to fill the $700 million 7 World Trade Center building. As of late December, just 40,000 of the total 1.7 million sq. ft. was leased. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg
An Aging Recovery After three years of surging demand, the industrial real estate sector is expected to encounter some turbulence in 2007. The trouble can be traced to a cooling economy. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2006
Joe Gose
Dispositions Dwindle REITs are less likely to be the net sellers they've been during the last few years when high demand for commercial real estate allowed office landlords to dump non-core assets or buildings in unfavorable markets. mark for My Articles similar articles
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2007
Pontius et al.
Office Romance Private Equity and Commercial Property Briefs: Private equity power... The REIT direction... New competitors... What's driving local markets?... Sector to watch: Medical Office... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2005
Matt Hudgins
It's A Jungle Out There The stakes keep rising for buyers hunting office properties in a crowded commercial real estate market. An excess of capital and persistently low long-term interest rates have given sellers the upper hand. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
November 25, 2002
Parke Chapman
Wells buys $345 million D.C. office complex Wells Real Estate Investment Trust has acquired a pair of Class-A, office buildings in the heart of Washington, D.C. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
January 7, 2010
Dan Levy
Silicon Valley's Commercial Real Estate Glut America's tech capital is feeling the aftershocks of a massive commercial building boom. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2005
Parke Chapman
Drowning in Data Legions of analysts and data gatherers now provide a steady flow of information about occupancies, asking rents, sales per square foot, and so on for all markets and classes of commercial real estate. If this is transparency, it is of a highly murky vintage. mark for My Articles similar articles
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2001
A Taste for the Classics Whether it's developing and managing great properties like the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco or 5 Times Square in New York City, or working with the board of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Properties' Ed Linde has shown a taste for the classics... mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
April 9, 2003
Los Angeles office market stabilizing? For the first time in months, the office vacancy rate for Los Angeles County has shown improvement, according to first-quarter statistics from Cushman & Wakefield. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2003
Chapman & Valley
The Sublease Overhang: A 124 Million Sq. Ft. Headache When will vacancy rates return to normal and asking rents stop falling? The answer very much depends on how quickly the office market can clear out a whopping 124 million sq. ft. of sublease space -- about 25% of the total available space nationwide. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2002
Margy Sweeney
Chicago's `Long, Flat Bottom' Downtown Chicago continues to bustle with construction activity. This is a good sign and also a scary one. mark for My Articles similar articles
Inc.
November 2006
A Tale of Two Sites A look at two major Web players in commercial real estate. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
January 2, 2003
MetLife sells 501 Boylston St. MetLife Inc. has sold the 530,000 sq. ft. 501 Boylston St. building in Boston to locally based Beacon Capital Partners LLC for a reported $130 million. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2006
Jennifer Dawson
Re-Energizing Houston Although the energy industry in Houston is enjoying a resurgence, the office sector continues to lag the broader economic recovery with a metro vacancy rate of nearly 18%. But increasingly the market appears poised for a major turnaround. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2005
Parke Chapman
Finally, An Uptick in Office Rents Average rents nationally rose by 0.7% to hit $20.25 per sq. ft., up from $20.11 per sq. ft. at the end of 2004. In reality, scores of major office markets are still limping, and some won't make a full recovery for several years to come. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2002
Jessica Miller
Office Fundamentals Continue to Crumble Climbing vacancies and a sluggish leasing market continue to dog the national office market. mark for My Articles similar articles
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2004
Michael Fickes
Stephen L. Green Made in Manhattan Since going public in 1997, the SL Green portfolio has grown from 2 million square feet to 15 million square feet. Revenues reached $309 million at the end of 2003, a 30 percent increase for the year. mark for My Articles similar articles
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2007
Charles Keenan
The Boston Props Ed Linde and Mortimer Zuckerman of Boston Properties have steadily built the company into one of the most respected real estate companies in the world. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
December 3, 2003
Parke Chapman
On the Cusp of an Office Recovery? The third quarter brought hope to the embattled national office market: Grubb & Ellis reports that the national office market vacancy rate has stabilized at about 18%, which could embolden landlords to cut back concessions in 2004. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2004
Parke Chapman
Midtown Manhattan: A Pillar of Strength The real estate market in Manhattan is finally emerging from a three-year slump. Office leasing is on the rise, hotel vacancy rates are tightening and luxury retailers are flocking to Fifth Avenue's midtown shopping corridor. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2003
Carol Tice
Listless in Seattle In March, state economists warned that Seattle won't see any sign of recovery before late 2004. But some developers are looking beyond the current miasma and are planning major new projects that they hope will open to a brighter scene in two years. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
May 19, 2003
Parke Chapman
Fitch: Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas Office Markets Continue to Struggle The nation's office market is weak, but some areas are faring far worse than others, reports Fitch Ratings. Between the beginning of 2000 and 2003, U.S office vacancy nearly doubled from 8.6% to 16.9% according to Fitch. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2005
Matt Valley
Office Absorption Rises, But Concerns Persist While the office market has dug itself out of a deep hole, it isn't out of the woods just yet. Investors willing to gamble and buy vacancy in anticipation of a swift recovery are advised to proceed with caution. mark for My Articles similar articles