The bifurcation that has been a hallmark of the current recovery has at least one more iteration: the success a handful of major private equity firms…

The first of many changes in regulations and standards that would impact the commercial real estate community-new accounting methodologies for leases-was…

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…

Condo conversions were once one directional. In this post recessionary market, it's a two-way street. "Reversions" of troubled condominium projects seemed…

Investors have been waiting out the recession and chasing yield where they can find it, but tepid job growth is still a major concern for the economy…

Looking at the paper coming due in 2011, there are some no-brainers. For example: when loans on trophy assets in top markets hit maturity, they will…

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that "The rich are different from you and me," to which Ernest Hemingway sarcastically responded, "Yes, they have more money."…

Positive signs are visible when looking at the level of distress in the Midwest. Most of the region's markets don't have the breadth of troubled loans…