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The Week of September 19-25

- Will Britain’s commercial real estate sector be in negative equity until 2017?

- How bad are hotels?  Blackstone just sold one for less than it cost in 1998.

- Fitch ratings has downgraded one CMBS special servicer, while upgrading another.

- From the horses mouth: Tishman calls CRE mess “staggering”

- Will it cost more to stay alive? Life Companies have raised rates to cover CRE losses.

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The Week of September 5-11

- And the REIT deleveraging continues…

- The toilet is starting to overflow, as five more banks got flushed.

- A huge Colorado condo development owner has filed for Chapter 11.

- A recent study by Jones Lang LaSalle shows that CRE velocity will pick up, while values will remain flat.

- Where GM might have failed, GE plans to succeed. Read the rest of this entry »

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Earlier this week, there was an article in the Washington Post outlining how GE outsmarted the system, because their failure would pose a “systemic risk” to the market if allowed to fail. “This was crisis management on steroids,” said a person familiar with the process. “A lot was made up on the fly.”

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The Week of June 27 - July 3

- The iconic Sears Tower in Chicago is the latest to “Go Green.” It will also be getting a hotel.

- Speaking of green, could Texas be home to the first green airport?

- Think fundraising is hard in this economy for RE funds?  Not for Blackstone. Read the rest of this entry »

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