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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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2004 Beth Mattson-Teig |
How High Can They Go? Investors pay top dollar to acquire premium office properties.  |
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...  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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...  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Inc. November 2006 |
A Tale of Two Sites A look at two major Web players in commercial real estate.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |