Commercial Real Estate Finance

For the Week of February 20-26

- Should Fannie and Freddie be converted to non-profit, US-owned entities?

- Simon Property Group and General Growth Properties (two of yesterday’s post’s top earners) head to bankruptcy court in the $10 bil buyout deal.

- Can real estate investors bank on Hollywood’s staying power?

- John Klopp of Morgan Stanley sees debt investing as a significant opportunity going forward for investment banks.

- Does a 75% increase in sales volume in December over the prior month signal a true bottom in the market?

- InterContinental is taking a chance with a new New York hotel.

- Bernanke told lawmakers that interest rates will remain low.

- Student housing: is it an opportunity or learning experience?

- Competition between local governments in the Washington DC area reaches feverish levels in the effort to become the site of Northrop Grumman’s new national headquarters.

- General Growth Properties unique bankruptcy position may lure even more bidders.

- Hedge-fund investor David Tepper sued the special servicer in the foreclosure of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town over a conflict of interest.

- For the individual investor, is it time to get back into real estate? Onwallstreet weights the risks.

- Liberty International of the U.K. is in talks with Equity One to sell its $560 mil portfolio of malls.

- Jones Lang LaSalle has raised $1.5 bil for an investment fund that will target core properties in the United States

- Starwood Capital Group paid $104 mil more than the second-place bid for a portfolio of assets from failed Corus Bank.

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