Pensions and Investments Online put together a list of the Largest Real Estate Investment Managers. The list is ranked by total worldwide real estate assets, in millions, as of June 30, 2008.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Economic Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008
The White House and Congressional Leaders finalized the Bailout Bill: Current draft of the Economic Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008. (from the Wall Street Journal) It will be interesting to see how it progresses through the House and Senate. I expect to see a lot of salesmanship as politicians try to weave into their current political campaigns.
What does it actually do? Read this summary from the WSJ.com: Shape of Massive Bailout Bill Starts to Develop Definition.
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What does it actually do? Read this summary from the WSJ.com: Shape of Massive Bailout Bill Starts to Develop Definition.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
When Life Hands You Lehman, Make Lehman-Aid
Over the weekend, Lehman Brothers lost its interested buyers and got ready to file for bankruptcy. According to the New York Times, interested buyers wanted the federal backstop that was put into place for JP Morgan Chase purchase of Bear Stearns: 2 Wall St. Banks Falter; Markets Shaken.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the lack of a backstop scared off Bank of America and Barclays PLC: Ultimatum by Paulson Sparked Frantic End. Most people think various buyers will swoop in and buy individual pieces of Lehman.
On Sunday afternoon, a trading session was opened to allow firms to try to unwind their derivatives transactions with Lehman by finding other parties to step into Lehman's shoes: Lehman Risk Reduction Trading Session and Protocol Agreement.
It should be an interesting Monday and an interesting week.
Thanks to Rob Hyndman for coming up with this blog post title. I stole it from one of his Twitter Post (@rhh)
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All of these companies are clients of The Firm, but I am not aware of The Firm's participation in any of the weekend's events. If The Firm was involved, I was not.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the lack of a backstop scared off Bank of America and Barclays PLC: Ultimatum by Paulson Sparked Frantic End. Most people think various buyers will swoop in and buy individual pieces of Lehman.
On Sunday afternoon, a trading session was opened to allow firms to try to unwind their derivatives transactions with Lehman by finding other parties to step into Lehman's shoes: Lehman Risk Reduction Trading Session and Protocol Agreement.
It should be an interesting Monday and an interesting week.
Thanks to Rob Hyndman for coming up with this blog post title. I stole it from one of his Twitter Post (@rhh)
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All of these companies are clients of The Firm, but I am not aware of The Firm's participation in any of the weekend's events. If The Firm was involved, I was not.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Opportunity Funds Overfloweth
National Real Estate Investor published a story by Joe Gose on the flow of capital into distressed property funds: Opportunity Funds OVERFLOWETH.
The problem will come at maturity. Commercial property owners may have a hard time rounding mortgage debt to replace the maturing debt. It was the short maturity on Mr. Macklowe's debt that forced him to sell the GM Building. More commercial property owners are going to be faced with mortgage debt maturity. Will there be mortgage debt there to replace it?
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"Opportunity funds concentrating on distress intend to take advantage of the seized-up debt markets in a few different ways. Many funds are buying debt at a discount from investment banks stuck with billions of dollars of loans they can't securitize. Other investors believe loose underwriting and over-leveraged properties will soon lead to maturity defaults, essentially defaults that occur when a landlord can't refinance a property because it isn't worth the loan coming due or because a landlord can't come up with a slug of equity that lenders want. Those funds intend to buy up that real estate, or at least gain a position in the assets."It will be interesting to see if the capital markets come back into time to avoid a commercial real estate crash. The loose underwriting standards we saw eighteen months ago are gone (for the foreseeable future). But most commercial property owners have enough cash flow to pay the monthly debt payments.
The problem will come at maturity. Commercial property owners may have a hard time rounding mortgage debt to replace the maturing debt. It was the short maturity on Mr. Macklowe's debt that forced him to sell the GM Building. More commercial property owners are going to be faced with mortgage debt maturity. Will there be mortgage debt there to replace it?
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Blockshopper
Blockshopper.com is trying to make news out of residential transactions. The site has launched in Chicago, St. Louis, South Florida and Las Vegas, trolling the listing services and registries of deed to find what notable people are doing with their real estate.
According to Law.com, some lawyers at Jones Day are not happy that their real estate purchases are making headlines: Lawyers Shrink From Web Real Estate Spotlight. They have sued Blockshopper. Of course, that is just more publicity for Blockshopper. Not free publicity since they will need to pay the lawyers.
Will the suit go anywhere? I thought real estate records were public documents and open for anyone to see. So what is the problem?
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According to Law.com, some lawyers at Jones Day are not happy that their real estate purchases are making headlines: Lawyers Shrink From Web Real Estate Spotlight. They have sued Blockshopper. Of course, that is just more publicity for Blockshopper. Not free publicity since they will need to pay the lawyers.
Will the suit go anywhere? I thought real estate records were public documents and open for anyone to see. So what is the problem?
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