Real Estate Issues articles from March 2008

Real Estate Issues archives from March 2008

Editor's statement.(Column)
March 22, 2008... "Everything you know, I taught you. I did not teach you everything I know" THESE WERE THE WORDS of an investment banker who was providing me documentation for a pool of low-income, tax credit apartments for which Bartram & Cochran was...

Economic and market trends in second half of 2007 and early 2008: an assessment and outlook.(LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE)
March 22, 2008... Panelists: RAYMOND G. TORTO Ph.D., CRE Principal and Chief Strategist CB Richard Ellis--Torto Wheaton Research Boston, Mass. KENNETH P. RIGGS, JR., CRE President and CEO Real Estate Research Corp. Chicago,...

Deflation risk in income-property investments and permanent loan portfolios: a 2008 update.(FEATURE)(Column)
March 22, 2008... Note: These are the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of Bank of the West. THIS ARTICLE UPDATES A PREVIOUS ARTICLE I WROTE for the Summer 2003 issue of Real Estate Issues (REI) under the same title. Since then, I've...

Seizure in the capital markets and its impact on Washington's investment-grade office building deal volume.(FEATURE)
March 22, 2008... THE LENDING CRISES THAT HIT THE U.S. ECONOMY in the late 1980s and early 1990s had their foundation in poorly underwritten commercial loans and, for the most part, the impact of this failure remained within our domestic borders. However, this...

Home price indices futures.(FEATURE)
March 22, 2008... THIS ARTICLE ANALYZES THE POTENTIAL USE OF Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) housing futures for hedging, arbitrage and speculative purposes. The quote from the CME web page on housing futures reads: "CME Housing futures and options are the...

Focus on real estate analysis; Rebuilding after Katrina: an owner's perspective two years later.(INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE)(Column)
March 22, 2008... WE ARE TAUGHT TO THINK OF REAL ESTATE AS A STABLE investment, with predictable behavior. Two years after Katrina struck, the rebuilding of our seven New Orleans properties is finally complete, and I have learned just how much I had taken for...

Focus on real estate analysis: how major hurricanes impact housing prices and transaction volume.(FEATURE)
March 22, 2008... WE SEEK TO INVESTIGATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH COASTAL impacts of major (1) hurricanes may affect short- and medium-term housing prices. Our investigation is largely motivated by the increased strength and frequency of storms threatening the...