All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Real Estate Investment

It appears that we have been doing nothing economically during the current administration except gorging in a huge consumption and speculative binge and conducting war in the Middle East.  The subject article proposes that we will pay for this during the next administration and beyond as we rebuild...

The Dutch learn their history well and use it to their advantage.  In the late '70's and early 80's, I represented several Dutch institutional investment groups who entered the US real estatemarket.  One of the groups only bought shopping centers throughout the US.  At the time,...

Vacant properties invite a host of ills including vandalism,neglect,arson,and even destruction by former owners.  REO managers must have a set of preemptive security tools at hand to protect against deliberate damage and,as much as possible, the unpredictable forces of nature. ...

In my mind, the debate as to housing affordability and commercial real estate viability is over.  The game is lost as $ 21 trillion in housing value will become $ 15 trillion in the next few years and commercial real estate values will drop 25 to 50 % on the average in the next few years. 

If the subject analysis is realized, the return of Wall Street to advisory services will return real estate debt to the portfolio lenders.  Goodbye to the CMBS market as well as the sub-prime market.  In fact, Wall Street itself will be a unit of major banking institutions.  The major...

News reports continue to show that buyers during the real estate boom didn't attempt to understand the fundamentals.  Analysis of  the growing supply and the price competition to follow were absent from the buying decision.  Speculators now own a massive supply of hotel rooms, apartments...

Since the abandonment of the Gold Standard, and the ever increasing relevant uncertainties and system discontinuities of our times, it is not unusual for fortunes to disappear much faster than the time it may have taken to amass them!

ASistema is the largest Telecom company in Russia and together with its' construction subsidiary, Sistema Hals, (listed on the London Stock Exchange with a first 9 months turnover of $9.6 billion), is making their first ever investment outside of Russia and the CIS. With so much opportunity to make...

Since the abandonment of the Gold Standard, and the ever increasing relevant uncertainties and system discontinuities of our times, it is not unusual for fortunes to disappear much faster than the time it may have taken to amass them.

The economy of the western United States has been thought to have underpinnings that are too solid to be affected by recessions. Among these economic undertakings are the gaming and tourism facilities of Las Vegas. This assumption looks to be shaky as set forth in the subject article. &nb...