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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 ...
The ongoing capital investment needs of hotels are typically greater than those of other real estate asset classes. Hotels are made up of a large number of depreciable components that wear out with guest use, become obsolete or require updating to...
Data centers, the large buildings that house more machines than people, are typically located close to high-tech hubs to provide companies with close-by storage support, such as in booming (and expensive) office markets including San Francisco...
Pension funds have enjoyed a nice run of double digit returns on their real estate investments in recent years. But looking ahead to 2016, pension funds are dialing back on expectations and tweaking investment strategies to account for slower gro...
Jonathan Gray and Blackstone’s real estate division are certainly keeping busy in 2015, purchasing entire property portfolios with the same ease ordinary people pick up take-out. Their latest investment in commercial real estate involves...