Rankings are based on the total number of hotel rooms owned domestically as of Dec. 31, 2004. Companies also were asked to provide the total number of hotels owned domestically...
Developers counting on city governments to use eminent domain to clear urban renewal sites are watching to see if the U.S. Supreme Court favors property owners in a high-profile eminent domain dispute...
Imagine a project with stunning architecture. You've completed months of reviewing and modifying concept alternatives. Your world-class design team is sure the project will capture numerous industry awards for its creative design. But after two...
Brokerage firm CB Richard Ellis is fighting a sexual harassment lawsuit that, if certified as a class-action case, has the potential to include as many as 9,000 former and current CBRE employees seeking unspecified punitive and compensatory...
Colony Capital LLC plans to apply its familiar strategy — buying properties, upgrading and selling them — to the purchase of four casinos from Harrah's Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment in a deal valued at $1.24 billion...
Apartment landlords are getting into a new line of business: selling renters insurance on a group basis to their tenants. Landlords say the practice benefits them by lowering their risk of lawsuits from tenants. Another benefit is the commission...
Regus Group, a provider of outsourced offices, meeting rooms and conference facilities, has acquired its U.S. competitor, HQ Global Holdings, for roughly $302.5 million in cash. The combined company will control 652 business centers in 52...
The following rankings were originally published in the May issue of NREI. They are based on responses to NREI's Top Lender Survey questionnaire and reflect total dollars financed or arranged in commercial real estate during the 2003 calendar year...
When CB Richard Ellis officially acquired Insignia Financial Group in July 2003 it was the shot heard around the commercial real estate industry. The firm's $431 million buyout of New York-based Insignia created the largest real estate services...
The Top Shopping Center Owners ranking was originally published in NREI's sister publication, Retail Traffic. The listing is based on total retail GLA owned through Dec. 31, 2003, as reported by participating companies unless otherwise noted. In...