Condo conversions were once one directional. In this post recessionary market, it's a two-way street. "Reversions" of troubled condominium projects seemed…

Moody's Investors Service recently downgraded Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup, a move that is expected to have a ripple effect through the…

The bifurcated market. The tale of two cities. Two sides of the same investment coin. Pick your cliché and run with it. The division exists in…

Today's hotel market is thriving, competitive and bullish. It's also a day late and a dollar short, overleveraged and obsolete. In fact, how the hotel…

Through Icahn Partners LP and certain affiliates, billionaire investor Carl Icahn has acquired 51 % of the first-lien debt owed by Trump Entertainment.…

Investors looking for distressed retail assets will surely be able to find them in the coming months and years. One of the big questions, however, is…

The fervor for distressed assets among would-be investors grew with intensity until the US government got involved and discouraged lenders from using…

There are only a handful of B-piece buyers active in the market now. If the commercial real estate industry wants to see CMBS transactions push past…