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Commercial Real Estate Week In Review for the Week of August 21-27

- The Dodd-Frank overhaul will impact private equity, real estate and hedge funds.

- Apartment buildings are leading delinquency rates in New York.

- Investors seem very eager about distressed retail opportunities.

- Wells Fargo is jumping back into CMBS.

- Believe it or not, commercial real estate actually made gains in the second quarter of 2010.
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Are we headed for a double dip recession? Nouriel Roubini, professor of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and recent author of the book “Crisis Economics” weighs in on the Kudlow Report.

Julia Coronado, senior US economist at BNP Paribas, and Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial, share their economic outlooks for the second-half of 2010.

Commercial Real Estate Week in Review-June 20-26

-Fed not going to raise interest rates.

-Total amount of distressed commercial real estate down 11% since March.

-Medical Properties Trust acquires 3 hospitals for $74M.

-Commercial real estate prices up 4.7% since October.

-Retail Opportunity Investments Corp (Nasdaq: ROIC) acquires 5 retail centers for $90M.
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World Cup fever has struck here at Llenrock.  With all this talk of England vs. USA, another great rivalry that has surfaced this week may be about to boil over, under the radar: is the other commercial real estate shoe going to fall off or not? There were two opposing views offered up this week by Jones Lang LaSalle’s (NYSE: JLL) James Koster, and Venable’s Gregory Cross. Let’s examine who had the upper foot…I mean hand. Read the rest of this entry »

The world economy still risks a double-dip recession if oil prices rise toward $100 per barrel and if huge U.S. government debts frighten investors, Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and chairman of RGE Monitor, told CNBC a few days ago.