Real Estate

Retail leases usually contain provisions addressing the responsibility for maintenance and repair of the leased premises or shopping center. Two areas that can give rise to lease- language-interpretation problems are replacement and structural...

HOUSTON - In a move that combines two of the real estate industry's leading analytical software companies, Houston-based ARGUS Financial Software has acquired the assets of Clearwater, Fla.-based DYNA Software & Consulting and will operate...

Chart your own course, select your meals, pick your own ingredients from a European marketplace, watch a chef prepare your food, get your passport stamped, and then relax in a bistro, Italian country inn or Mediterranean garden. And to do so, you...

As shopping center developers and owners know full well, operating a consistently successful center depends on their ability to attract and maintain highly recognizable, credit-worthy anchor tenants...

Thomas A. Rizk, former CEO of Cranford, N.J.-based Mack-Cali Realty Corp., left the company on April 19, and was replaced by former Mack-Cali president and COO Mitchell E. Hersh. Rizk also left the REIT's board of directors...

Alandlord repaves his entire parking lot one spring and charges it to CAM. Another landlord repaves his parking lot one pothole at a time, until at the end of five years he's repaved the entire parking lot...

Wal-Mart. Amazon.com. Starbucks Coffee. Blockbuster. While most news covers the big guys these days, bigger and ultra-efficient are not always better; sometimes real estate lending and asset management takes more than the standard approach...

One of the most critical provisions of a shopping center lease is the use clause. What the tenant may sell or operate in its premises not only affects the tenant but also impacts the tenant mix of the center and the landlord's future leasing plans...