Don’t Believe the Hype: Malls Aren’t Dead

We’ve been told for quite a while now that malls are dead, or at least about to vanish. This declaration became popular in the mass media a little over a decade ago when it figured out that people were buying goods online. And editors love to make big pronouncements...

Restaurant Roundtable: Examining a Vibrant Tenant

Restaurants are an often talked about retail real estate tenant nowadays. In a commercial real estate sector where store expansion in uneven, many eatery chains are increasing their footprints across the country. In the single-tenant net-lease arena especially,...

Student Housing Attracts Financing and Development

Student Housing may not have the amount of product or gather the attention collected by other commercial real estate sectors, but that doesn’t mean that investors aren’t interested in this hot market. Julie Sorensen, a business development director at GRS Group,...

Survey Coverage Case Study: LTIC Vs. Doubletree

I would like to discuss Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation Vs. Doubletree Partners, L.P., as an example of how survey coverage can get complicated. The action, recently in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Case numbers 12-40692 and 12-407020),...

Assessing New York’s “Brutal” CRE Lending Market

There is arguably no market in the country like New York City when it comes to commercial real estate values, lending competition and overall grandeur. Competition in the country’s largest city is especially strong, given the rebound in CRE transaction activity and...