Commercial Real Estate Week In Review
December 19th, 2009 | 
Author: The Week of December 12-18
- Is all of the loose spending by world governments creating a massive asset bubble risk?
- If Fed funds and interest rate hikes aren’t coming, then we’ve got one confused futures market.
- Dollars from Dhabi to Dubai: One Arab nation is bailing out a neighbor.
- Specialized investment banks are ramping up to prepare for CRE turmoil.
- Fairfield Residential, one of the biggest U.S. apartment landlords, is filing for Chapter 11.
- Weyerhaeuser, a massive forest products company, will be converting to a REIT in 2010.
- Wells Fargo and Citigroup have paid back their TARP loans this week.
- The consensus this week is that the CMBS market will return….slowly.
- What’s the next step for Fannie and Freddie? The Treasury is debating…
- Is the market for distressed debt disappearing due to investor demand?
- First it was car dealerships…now could it be post offices?
- Will foreign investors invest billions in U.S. CRE in 2010?
- Will Freddie Mac have another down year in 2010?
- Have construction costs bottomed out?
- Has the General Growth Properties bankruptcy changed CRE forever?
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Tags: Abu Dhabi, asset bubble, bankruptcy, car dealerships, Chapter 11, citigroup, CMBS market, construction costs, distressed debt, distressed debt market, Dubai, Fairfield Residential, Fannie Mae, Fed Funds rate, foreign investment, Freddie Mac, futures market, GGP, interest rates, post offices, REIT, TARP, Treasury, Wells Fargo, Weyerhaeuser
