All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Commercial Market Trends

So far, the widely touted recession in the US has yet to notch up even one quarter of economic decline. Retail hasn't grown much, but neither is it shrinking to any great extent. Retail developers and REITs are likely to have asymmetric vulnerabilities depending on the location of their assets.

No matter what the story, Simon and all other shopping center developers fortunes are directly tied to retail rents and rents are directly tied to sales. Depending on the region, retail and food sales are down 10% to 30% and an unprecidented number of independent retailers and restarantuers are simply...

The recent spike in gas prices has been followed by a reduction in crude oil and the promise of cheaper gas in the future. But no one believes it will cease to be a problem for retailing and every other facet of our daily lives. But is this our biggest problem in the retail and shopping center business?...

If you distill the numbers in this latest report, 13% of all retail establishments in this country will close there doors this year. Not too worry though, says the International Council of Shopping Centers, since roughly the same number of stores open each year that close. Perhaps that has...

It is possible to liquidate properties in today's market. That doesn't mean that it is either easy or painless. It behooves readers of such news to keep the grains of salt close at hand.

With the recent exodus of executives and the elimination of the quarterly dividend, this is a ship that cannot be righted. This is a company that should be conserving cash, not instituting a share buyback program. Besides, when 41% of the stock is held by insiders, one has to question both the...

July 1 marked the beginning of a new fiscal year for most states and about one third of local governments, and, as a result of declining economic conditions, ushered in a period of cutback management and difficult decision making for many state and local leaders. Reduce taxes,reduce spending is the...

The knee-jerk reaction to this article is that we should all drop a 500 gal. fuel tank in our back yards, because soon there won't be any gas stations left!!  We are also led to believe that the gas station business is homogenous across the U.S. of A. - clearly not the case. The success of a gas...

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...

To assert that "times are tough but not as tough as during the recession of the early 2000s" is to look no further than the numbers, ignoring the underlying issues, which the NAR and many other trade organizations are quite good at. The numbers may not show it now, but the commercial real estate market...