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Commercial Real Estate Week In Review
July 10th, 2010 | 
Author: Commercial Real Estate Week In Review - The Week of July 3-9
- CMBS is returning to middle market loans…just very slowly.
- Holy Schnikies! The U.S. Government Made a good bet! The TARP Program has turned a profit.
- Meanwhile, “Pretend and Extend” is now viewed skeptically. ( When was it not?)
- Commercial real estate bonds are under-performing the broader market. Why?
- Pebblebrook, a hotel REIT, has continued its buying frenzy with a $105M Atlanta purchase.
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Posted in Week in Review | 
Tags: Barclay's, British bank, cheap money, CMBS, commercial real estate bonds, dividend capital total realty trust, Fed, Hotel REIT, interest rates, Macquarie Group, middle market, office vacancy, Pebblebrook, Starwood, TARP, Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary, unemployment rate, W hotel | 
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China Letting the Yuan Appreciate Will Have an Impact on Commercial Real Estate
China’s decision to let the Yuan appreciate is a drain on global liquidity. While various legislative elements and the treasury have aggressively pushed China to revalue the Yuan, the Federal reserve has indicated that rates will stay low for a while. Unfortunately these policy goals are at odds and it leads to some confusion in the market place.
Posted in Economy, Politics/Government Programs |
Tags: agencies, asset prices, China, commercial real estate, debt crisis, Europe, Fed, liquidity, note, NVR, PBOC, PHM, revalue, sovereign debt crisis, Toll Brothers, treasuries, unemployment rate, US housing market, yuan |
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The Prophet Speaks…Again
About a year ago we dedicated an entire week’s worth of posts to famed Analyst Meredith Whitney. As a quick refresher, she was responsible for “the call” on Citi, where she (almost prophetically) predicted that Citi was in serious trouble. Following a quick rise to fame, she was subsequently dubbed the “Oracle of Wall Street.” She left her job at Oppenheimer and started her own advisory firm: Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, LLC (rolls off the tongue, no?). She even made Forbes.com’s Best Analysts: Stock Pickers list. Her new advice: avoid anything related to the financial industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in People |
Tags: Citi, citigroup, CNBC, commercial real estate, community banks, Congress, credit cards, credit crunch, credit freeze, credit markets, equity research, financial reform bill, Forbes, Forbes.com, Fox News, harbinger of doom, John "Bradshaw" Layfield, loans, Meredith Whitney, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, Oppenheimer Funds, Oracle of Wall Street, small business, speculation, unemployment rate, utah, WWE SmackDown |
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