All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Commercial Market Trends

This deal highlights several interesting facts:- Blackstone confirms its unrivaled ability to time the market- Blackstone unveils it is more than a normal Private Equity fund loading up debt on companies they intend to piecemeal. It has had a clear strategy and executed it flawlessly.- The Cap Rate...

In my opinion, Condo development and its financing in Florida are uncertain activities.A very large new inventory is coming on line in the next 18 months.Demand is already saturated and will likely not absorb new inventoryCaveat Emptor. The Buyer beware is a concept easily transferable to Developers...

- Number of new Mixed use projects (condo hotel / fractional / Villas) will come on the market soon which will add pressure on existing hotel properties.- Residential frenzy fueled in part all of these mixed use projects.- Appetite for Residential real estate has and will continue to decrease making...

The DC Metro market has shown its first sign of a downturn. The stats prove the point that Delta Associates as noted in the attached article. The results of the 1st Q vacancy & absorption which are as follows....The 1st Q ’07 showed negative net absorption in all Suburban DC Markets. The DC proper...

This article that appeared in Globe Street on 4/12/07 superseded another article Globe Street article posted on 4/10/07 (http://www.globest.com/news/882_882/atlanta/159652-1.html). I believe that a slow down is imminent, but this may come sooner than later and I think this will happen sometime...

This article is important because it serves as a good example of the increasing waves of mindless blather that floods our retail real estate industry. It is generally created by by young writers who just discovered that malls are changing and feel compelled to write about this amazing...

Interesting article, but no new ground is being plowed here.

-Five reasons and probably many more have brought about the "Blurring of the Definition of the Mall". In my mind the main reason has been the changing retail environment.-As department stores have left the marketplace because of their failure to provide for the needs of their customers, developers have...

Commercial real estate pricing is accelerating because investors have money to spend: 1.This capital is drawn from the national coffers by increasing the amount of debt versus equity – in other words, we are leveraging our national economic future for this market; 2.The leverage shown throughout...

Changing times. Buyers interest in Limited Service Hotels flipped to Full Service Hotels, and money to burn; but watch out for flatter occupancies.