Commercial development is a unique industry. Different from residential professionals, commercial real estate professionals deal with larger projects, higher risk and more complex technical disciplines. At the same time however, the business is...

A new trend in the hospitality sector, dual-branding, is drawing strong industry interest, with developers and operators trying to double up offerings at a single property...

We’ve all heard and read the less-than-positive rhetoric about class-B malls—sales are down, department store anchors are going dark, inline tenants are leaving and e-commerce is stealing customers away...

As the economy has recovered from the downturn of 2008 and banks once again have money to lend, they remain bound by regulations and restrictions that keep them from making loans that carry even the slightest of risks. Private lenders are left to...

The music continued to play in 2015 for the white-hot multifamily market, as many investors saw rents and occupancies climb higher and cap rates fall. Sales of apartment projects still under construction remain commonplace. Record-high sales...

Real estate litigation attorneys in Los Angeles must be familiar with partition lawsuits. A partition lawsuit is needed when co-owners of real property cannot agree on how to separate. What is partition? Real property is often owned by two ...

Activist investor Carl Icahn has won the bidding war for Pep Boys, beating out Bridgestone Corp. to claim the Philadelphia-based automotive aftermarket chain. The deal is valued at roughly $1 billion—a staggering number when compared to the ...