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When Greystar Real Estate Partners acquired three apartment properties last year in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., the new owner installed submeters in each unit in order to gauge water consumption and bill residents directly for their actual usage. That...
From the street, the brand-new Point Berkeley in Duluth, Ga., a suburb north of Atlanta, looks like any other neighborhood shopping center. The 217,000 sq. ft. complex is anchored by an Asian supermarket, with a flurry of conventional retailers...
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...
