All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Real Estate Investment

 The article shows what’s on the local mind as families in this average man’s town try to get from paycheck to paycheck.  Not surprisingly, the British grocer, Tesco, has called a 90 day moratorium to its aggressive market entry and store opening program in Arizona, California and Nevada. ...

RE Markets like any are cyclical by their very nature.   Home buyers will return enmasse once they perceive the market gyrations are slowing and they believe good deals are available.  The local nature of RE negates a large amount of existing commentary.

I believe we are just now seeing the "tip of the iceberg." There will be many opportunities for auctioneers in the coming months. The auction method provides alternative marketing techniques thea expedite non-contingency sales with relatively quick closings..      &nbs...

Consider: “a lot of the financial system looks like it’s going to shrivel up and have to be rebuilt”; “it’s clear that we’re going to have a commercial real estate crash not too far short of the severity of the housing crash”; “the only good thing we have going for the U.S. economy now is the weak dollar...

- Short Sales Are Below Radar - Stricter Lending Criteria Keeping Interest Rates Higher Thwarting the Fed's Actions (Which do not directly affect mortgage rates, anyhow).

The Sub-Prime issues have become just that another issue that needs to be worked out. This is a great topic and everyone has his or her idea of what is happening and when it will stop. That in itself lends to great conversation, i on the other hand think the market is cleaning itself and removing the...

A comparison to the mortgage crisis in the US for European markets and possible impact here are woth to explore. 

This material is an easy reading two pages that proposes government programs that will take at least ten years to effect.  We haven’t begun to set up a government program as proposed and won’t in this lame duck administration.  So by the time the next government in Washington gets out of first...

While Mr. Burns correctly points out to the GLG reader who may have missed the news, that the real estate bubble has finally burst and that the country is in the midst of a recession, he totally fails to establish his main theme in this and previous articles, that the death of the Mall is close at hand....

Using the well publicized problems of Harry Macklowe and Centro Properties as the poster boys of WSJ's front Page article, we then learn that it is only the over leveraged commercial property speculators who are likely to suffer in this real estate recession. The article then quickly points out...