As handy phrases go, extend-and-pretend is hard to beat. It's a shorthand that is easy to understand and summarizes, whether fairly or not, the approach…

Investors spent much of 2011 crowding into top-tier cities in search of the perfect distressed opportunity. And although prime assets continue to draw…

The peak of distressed properties has come and gone, according to Gregory Leisch, chief executive officer of Delta Associates. "Our conclusion is that…

Circa 2007, Dubai was literally and figuratively the hot spot on the map. The city's massive office towers, hotels and master-planned communities were…

Lenders who foreclose on commercial real estate these days face a series of decisions that, arguably, are tougher than those same choices might have…

The past couple of years have not garnered much public enthusiasm for financial mechanisms, and disagreement over the necessary or meddling behavior…

For real estate people who want to get their hands on hard assets and do something with them, distressed assets illustrate the maxim that you can't always…

Trepp senior managing director Manus Clancy has both good news and bad news for the commercial real estate finance markets. The good news is that the…