This year was supposed to be the coming-out party for the commercial real estate collateralized debt obligation (CRE CDO) market. After topping $35 billion in issuance in 2006, expectations were the market would nearly double to $60 billion this...

One of the defining trends of the retail industry in the past decade has been a great hollowing out of the middle. Mid-tier chains have struggled or disappeared entirely. Discounters — exemplified by Wal-Mart — have thrived at one end of the...

The commercial mortgage market faces one of its toughest credit climates in more than a decade. The most complex corners of the securitized mortgage market are getting hammered. Products that flew off shelves 12 months ago now are piling up: As of...

In these three dominant areas, architects have an unprecedented opportunity to reshape retail real estate in the coming years. Recently, four members of the American Institute of Architects' Retail and Entertainment Knowledge Community sat down to...

Nine firefighters died June 18 while battling a massive warehouse blaze in Charleston, S.C. Investigators discovered the Sofa Super Store warehouse wasn’t protected by a fire sprinkler system – nor was it required to be. The warehouse was built...

The following is a condensed version of the apartment owners portion of the 2007 NMHC 50, an annual ranking of the 50 largest U.S. apartment owners and managers published in NREI's April issue. The companies below are ranked according to the...

When it was constructed in 1889, the 13-story Ames Building was the first skyscraper in Boston. The wealthy Ames family owned the hugely successful agricultural tool business, Ames Plow, launched in the late 1770s. Ames Plow picked a pinnacle...

Marco's Pizza is hungry for a bigger slice of the $37 billion U.S. pizza industry. By the end of 2011, the Toledo, Ohio-based chain of pizza restaurants plans to operate 1,500 store locations in 40 states. If it achieves that objective, Marco's...

When the mother of all privatization deals was announced in November 2006, it rocked Wall Street and the REIT industry. A proposed buyout of Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP) by The Blackstone Group, a $20 billion deal not including debt, would...

While an ongoing housing correction has depressed residential land prices by more than 30% in some parts of the country, commercial property values are moving in the opposite direction, say experts. Such a substantial jump in commercial land...