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Editor’s Note: Several of us at Llenrock Group have been teaching a course on the capital markets for commercial real estate broker’s continuing education requirements. As the last installment in a three week blog series, this week Questionable Brokers will  posit questions regarding Deal Structure. Click here for Part 1 (Real Estate Metrics). And click here for part 2 (Types of Capital) Enjoy!

Q: Why haven’t there been as many distressed properties coming to the market as was expected / predicted?

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…for being such scoundrels.

Last week, the New York Times reported on the indictment of R. Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire accused of running a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Stanford has sold a huge number of CD’s around the world through a bank he set up in the Caribbean. Allegedly, when selling the CD’s he misrepresented where the purchaser’s cash would be invested to generate the return promised by the certificate. Instead of investing the proceeds in liquid, low-risk assets as he had promised the buyer, Stanford allegedly used the money to make highly speculative investments in real estate and other personal ventures.

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