All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Commercial Market Trends

The German property market has built in stablizers: lower leverage, more moderate price increases over a longer period, lower volatility and underbuilding in many cities. The willingness of German investors, both retail and institutional, to invest directly and indirectly in residential and...

The Indian Construction Industry is trying to create a concrete jungle by using manual labor and artists and unskilled labor all put together. India is a demand driven economy and the scale and quality required to fulfill this demand can be only be accomplished via automation or invest in training of...

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,...

I think this article is important because it spreads a false sense of what is really happening in the industry. While I realize that many reporters exaggerate their premise to make for more interesting reading, this article crosses the line. In my opinion it is irresponsible to dress up an old hag that...

Foreclosures,tax increases,land devaluations and a sour economic outlook  for the remainder 2008 have forced municipalities and counties to look at fat trimming measures which hurt the least number of citizens.  The recently passed Amendment One forces local governments to limit tax increases...

The government is powerless. Wall Street is delusional. The financial system is in trouble, AND IT WILL GET WORSE.

As the article so vehemently proposes, the worst is yet to come. The bottom of the commercial real estate down cycle hasn’t even been reached yet and there are those who are claiming the return of the good times are just around the corner. Is this a fantastic case of wishful thinking or do these folks...

As the article refers, the current credit crisis will be with us for quite a while. The ripple effects are great and deep. As this article points out there are new investment funds that are being created for the sole purpose of picking on the carcasses of distressed real estate debt and the properties...

With extensive anecdotal evidence from retail real estate  brokers around the country who are bemoaning their lack of action, this article attempts to depict what's behind the almost moribund market for retail properties.  As usual, this reporter who frequently writes for one...

On the surface, statements seem valid and perhaps are for individual properties and new construction plans. The structured financings inside management contracts and leases provide relatively stable cash flow for the real property owners and lenders that are the underlying financiers of the hotel industry....