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There have been recessions and commercial real estate bubbles that have burst in the past. The most notable was the 1990's crash. Unfortunately the learning curve for this time around will be an uphill battle for all concerned. The simple reason is no one has had to encountered the multiple...

Although Fitch is using a very reputable company for their data PPR, Fitch’s model for this evaluation is very flawed. This will just perpetuate the misery of the CMBS marketplace and provide false readings as to the underlying health of the commercial real estate that is being secured.

Timing is everything in business and life. With the drum beat of bad economic events all around us, there will become a tipping point whereby it will make sense for investors and tenants to take advantage of the downturn in the commercial real estate market if they survived to that point in time. The...

When major service providers manipulate their statistics to paint a different picture than what is true reality, how can that benefit anyone in the industry or better asked the uneducated commercial real estate consumer? It also provides a disservice to their client base that rely on honest and objective...

The Key Implication is this investment behavior is so far over the top and wrong, that its is going to hurt a lot of innocent people and the tax payers. CEO’s of Public Companies have been put in Jail for such bad investment behavior. Furthermore the pension fund managers can’t even report on how...

The DC regional commercial real estate market is beginning to feel the pain of the slowing economy. And As this writer has been expressing there are those still in major denial. By sitting back and watching Rome burn, they are contributing to the continued decline. At least some landlord's...

Fasten your seatbelts because its going to be a bumpy ride. As this is just the beginning of a down cycle in commercial real estate, there will be a major shake out or as some have said a culling of the herd.

The ECONOMIC news is not getting any better, as a matter of fact its getting worse. And yet there are still those in the commercial real estate industry that keep looking for the silver lining as if that is what is going to save the day. What this does is create false expectations which by...

Now that the numbers are coming in, there is no doubt the commercial market has just begun to feel the pain this writer has been predicting. The only question is far down can the market go and for how long. All indications are it will be a decent decline probably not the worst in terms of historical...

What the subject article is telling us, there is a lot of fools gold out in the market. As my previous post suggested, Wall St. can not be trusted. So this leaves investors in a real quandary as to where to plant their money. Knowing this and understanding that corporate earnings are under major stress,...