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Volume 3 - Number 14 | July 24, 2006
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TOP STORY: Analysts Optimistic on Recovery of New Orleans
By Erika Morphy
Since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, analysts, investors and residents have anxiously wondered whether the city’s commercial real estate market would fall into permanent decline. The consensus is generally optimistic. Most investors and analysts expect both the city and region to rebound, at least eventually.
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Capital Watch: Cyclical Slowdown in Investor Demand
By Alex Finkelstein
An industry analyst says a cyclical slowdown in investor demand for commercial real estate is on the horizon. Robert Bach, senior vice president of research and client services at Northbrook, IL-based Grubb & Ellis Co., says, “Demand for commercial real estate, although still very strong, is beginning to retreat from the frothy levels in recent years toward a more sustainable rate of capital flows.”
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Insider: CapitalSource’s Michael C. Szwajkowski
By Erika Morphy
CapitalSource Inc., a Bethesda, MD-based specialty finance company, has expanded significantly since it was founded in 2000. It has built a national network of offices in Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco. Now, the company is poised to ratchet up its presence and product line.
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Investors Show Healthy Appetite for Medical Offices
By Alex Finkelstein
Medical offices have evolved from a tertiary real estate investment option to the foundation of a $2 billion market dominated by fierce competition for properties, says Alan L. Pontius, senior vice president and national director of Marcus & Millichap's national office and industrial properties group.
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