Would-be buyers of distressed office properties can see the troubled buildings just waiting to be marketed. They can see them on the balance sheets of…

Just as there's no free lunch, there are no free loans. That's the essence of the effort that borrowers and lenders have been making for several years…

Investors looking for distressed retail assets will surely be able to find them in the coming months and years. One of the big questions, however, is…

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…

Disposing of distressed assets involves more than just offering notes or REO for sale-much more-as panelists pointed out recently at the Grubb &…

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…

An old saying in real estate posits that a good deal is one that is good for both sides. That adage is in play for the parties involved in one of the…

Depending on what kind of distress they're looking for, investors in search of troubled properties in the Southwest are likely to find the most deals…