The Congressional Oversight Panel Releases Its Report on Commercial Real Estate Market Conditions Sam Chandan PhD FRICS Real Capital Analytics and the Wharton School Andrew Florio and Ben Thypin Real Capital Analytics For a moment, Washington has turned the weight of its attention to commercial real...

Standing Out From a Crowd: Seniors Housing Occupancy and Absorption Rise in the Third Quarter Sam Chandan PhD FRICS Real Estate Econometrics and the Wharton School Michael Hargrave National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry www.nicmap.org [Download PDF] Notwithstanding a resumption...

The White House and theNovember Employment Report Speaking at the Brookings Institution on Tuesday, President Obama outlined new steps - prefigured by comments by Council of Economic Advisors Chair Dr. Christina Romer a week earlier - that the Administration will propose to spur job growth (watch the...

TALF, PPIP, and the Problem of Credit A Discussion with McKenna Long's Brian Olasov Brian Olasov, Managing Director at McKenna Long & Aldridge, travelled from Atlanta on Monday to speak with Wharton's real estate finance students on issues relating to the government's interventions in support of commercial...

The New Placemaking A Discussion With Matthew Kwatinetz I recently sat down with Heartland's Matt Kwatinetz for a lively discussion about placemaking, whole-neighborhood development initiatives, and the potential for capturing positive externalities in the value of properties adjacent to anchor developments....

If It Doesn't Quack Like a Duck CMBS, CMBS TALF, and What the New Deals Mean for Credit Five months after the formal expansion of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) to CMBS in June, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced yesterday afternoon that it had received its first requests...

A Commercial Real Estate Dissection of the October Employment Report A Review of the Household Data Shows Fewer Lost Jobs but Few Opportunities for the Unemployed The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Employment Situation Report for October on Friday morning, November 6. According to...

A Commercial Real Estate Dissection of Third Quarter GDP While the formal dating of the recession's end is a privilege that resides with the NBER, news of the economy's expansion has trumped a formal announcement - The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the advance report of third quarter gross...