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Maybe the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) needs to get an M.B.A. in real estate. As a recent Wall Street Journal article detailed, the company charged with helping borrowers source financing, drank their own financing Kool-Aid and succumbed to a tanking economy and real estate market.  Its one thing for an unknowing and unsuspecting homeowner to get a variable rate mortgage.  Its another for an organization of professionals taught to understand the pitfalls of such financing in an economy with unsustainable low interest rates.  The MBA sold their Washington D.C. headquarters, which they bough in 2007 for $79.1 million,  to commercial real estate data provider CoStar Group for just $43 million.

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The Week of December 26-January 1

- Here, you can read about how CalPERS completely and massively screwed itself.

- PREIT led REITs in small cap gainers in 2009.

- Its the end of 2009…just how harsh are the predictions for CRE defaults going forward?

- Dollar General is planning 600 new stores for 2010.

- The Hong Kong waterfront is a hot spot for real estate…just not as hot as once thought.
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The Week of July 18-24

-And the list of failed banks keeps growing, and growing, and growing…

- Most news suggests, and has suggested for a while now, that the hotel sector is in the doldrums.  This news suggest the opposite.

- This just in!  Banks might actually have a plan for the glut of REO they will be facing.

- Zions Bancorp is preparing for the worst by benching 3/4 of a billion bucks. Read the rest of this entry »

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