All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Commercial Market Trends

No matter where you are, a billion is lot of dollars. You’ll see from the referenced article the estimate of $ 1 billion coming across the Mexican border into Arizona every year. We in Arizona send that amount and more back to Mexico annually as we visit and shop there too.

We take many things for granted in the west. Consider the trend towards sustainable development and growing public awareness of the potential impact of climate change, for example. These issues have dominated the western land development and construction agenda for some time now, and are literally changing...

This article brings us back to the KEY investment principle: BUY LOW / SELL HIGH. Monitoring Mutual Fund hotel holdings is a good indicator of how healthy the hospitality sector is perceived to be. So far, it leads me to say that there's still room....only for long-term investor though.  High Market...

Mumbai which is often touted as the 'Manhattan of India’ is ranked seventh among the most expensive cities in the world to do business and stay in. With property prices touching all time highs, the current scenario is being questioned and is labeled as a bubble by many.

Blackstone (BX) recent purchase of Hilton Hotels (HLT) fro $26Bln (incl. debt) shows a shift in their business model and their ability to win over board of directors, shareholders (not as yet at the time of this analysis) They also manage to reassure Workers unions...

Blockbuster is not immune from the problems that have plagued the industry as Movie Gallery and others struggle to find some way to justify the continued operation of expensive and oversized stores. There will be many similar articles about Blockbuster's problems now that they have been exposed as having...

Large and emerging markets such as India and China represent the biggest opportunities in terms of hotel development for both brands and hotel developers (and to some extent, mortgage lenders). India and China are very interesting markets because not only they provide numerous and different...

The web based on-line commercial real estate data providers such as Costar and Loopnet better start to look around or in the next 3-5 years they may not be in business. The Internet is far from dead, and it is more robust than its ever been when it comes to commercial real estate information. They were...

The hotel industry has had the ability to increase prices to show higher profits and to offset operating costs. This in turn has reflected in higher sales prices in the past 3 years of individual hotels and portfolios. There are trends that are happening that will have an effect on hotel profits in...

Manufactured Housing is an Excellent Product 1.  The quality is as good if not better than site built housing 2.  It is more energy efficient 3.  It is significantly less expensive