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These Council Members include developers, REIT and operating company executives, construction contractors, corporate real estate executives, brokers, appraisers, market researchers, and highly specialized consultants.

Leading Experts on Real Estate

Jack Kern, Managing Director, Kern Investment ResearchJack Kern

Managing Director
Kern Investment Research
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.What is a Premium Council Partner?|Premium Council Partners are leading Professional Service Firms that work exclusively with GLG.

Jack Kern is a Managing Director at Kern Investment Research, a Washington DC area based consultancy that specializes in covering multifamily REITs, markets and the real estate economy. Mr. Kern has over seven years of experience as the Director of Research at Archstone-Smith Trust and covered REITs,...

John Fox, Principal, Fox Real Estate AdvisoryJohn Fox

Principal
Fox Real Estate Advisory
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John Fox is a 25 year retail real estate industry veteran with substantial expertise in mall, shopping center and retail research. As principal of Fox Real Estate Advisory, Mr. Fox provides clients with timely and actionable information and analysis on retail real estate. Researching and advising on...

Richard Jennings

President
Realty Capital International LLC
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Richard Jennings is the President of Realty Capital International LLC. He is Lead Director of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc and a Director of National Retail Properties, Inc. and a Director of Cogdell Spencer, Inc. Mr. Jennings has raised over $8 billion of equity and debt for REITs, real estate...

John Burns, President, JOHN BURNS REAL ESTATE CONSULTING, INC.John Burns

President
JOHN BURNS REAL ESTATE CONSULTING, INC.
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John Burns is the President of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, which helps real estate industry executives by analyzing and summarizing the information they need to make decisions with more confidence. Mr. Burns is on retainer with a number of companies, both in the housing industry and Wall Street,...

Brooks Mendell

President
Forisk Consulting
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Brooks Mendell is President of Forisk Consulting, a forest industry, bioenergy and timber market research, and education firm. Dr. Mendell has over 15 years of operating, research, and consulting experience in forest business and finance. His experience includes roles in harvest operations and wood...

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GLG NewsSM Analyses in Real Estate(?)

Analyses are solely the work of the authors and have not been edited or endorsed by GLG.

REITs Slow Dance for the Street

June 30, 2009

Jack Kern, Managing Director, Kern Investment Research

Multifamily REITs see Underweighting by BOA-Merrill | www.globest.com

The apartment industry is subject to a great deal of coverage, and some of it, justified or not is decidedly negative. As an industry that is subject to great challenges, it also meets property management issues with concessions and no increases at renewal. In many places, the levels of site traffic...

Is this happening across the Globe? Or just a localised situation in the affected country.

June 29, 2009

Desperate times for landlords | www.ft.com

Similarities between the Swine Flu & the Lower Rents for Landlords- This does not reflect the commercial / retail industry alone but across the board for all properties. Physical Properties & Equities - Too little with Too Much Where shall it be invested in? Reits? Local Companies?...

Restoring CMBS Key to Future CRE

June 26, 2009

Jack Kern, Managing Director, Kern Investment Research

Worries over systemic risk in CMBS | www.ft.com

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, through president Richard Dudley has made restoring CMBS a key priority. This is really good policy while it seems to contradict some of the earlier actions of the Fed, especially in light of the decisions about the eligibility of certain loan terms for loan participation....

When Does a Market Bottom?

June 25, 2009

HOUSING INVENTORY INCREASE EXPECTED | www.lvrj.com

The determination of when a market bottoms is based upon the resurgence of a "free selling market" when sellers are not forced to sell and buyers are not buying because of subsidies, tax bonuses and all sorts of market stimulus. Reaching a decision that buyers are now in the market buying forced sales,...

A Worthwhile Summary

June 24, 2009

Kenneth Leonard, Principal, Leonard Associates

National Retailer Risk Tracking | blog.retailtrafficmag.com

I just wanted to share this work with my GLG News readers. Although it is not perfect, my friends at Madison Marquette went to a lot of trouble to gather all the recent public comments about many of the leading mall retailers and present a list of those they think are most at risk of going under.

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