Finance: Lending
Retail real estate lending and financing information.
Before the Fall
Dec 1, 2008
As 2008 draws to a close, it seems likely it will take with it one of the REIT industry's oldest stalwarts, General Growth Properties. More than a month...
The Lost Year
Dec 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Those in the retail real estate industry who hoped a market recovery would come swiftly and painlessly in the early stages of 2009 are going to disappointed....
General Growth's Growing Pains
Nov 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
As the credit crisis drags on, debt-ladened General Growth Properties, the nation's second largest regional mall REIT, may have no other choice than to...
Damage Report
Nov 1, 2008, By Jennifer Popovec
Between September 19, the Friday before investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, and October 15, the day the U.S. government invested...
Although Terms Have Changed, Debt Markets Remain Open to Retail REITs (10/15)
Oct 15, 2008
As the retail real estate industry awaits the fate of General Growth Properties Inc.—will it be dispositions, a wholesale liquidation, a merger or a miraculous recovery...
Could General Growth Be Sold?
Oct 1, 2008
As the credit crisis drags on, debt-ladened General Growth Properties, the nation’s second largest regional mall REIT, may have no other choice than to sell the company. ...
Hot Potato
Oct 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Where do we go from here? That was the question on many people's minds during the tumultuous two-week period in mid-September that took the credit crisis...
Out of Order
Aug 1, 2008
Nearly a year after it began, the credit crunch gripping financial markets is no closer to resolution. The losses are too large for the market to right,...
Centro Clears Hurdle
Aug 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
As it continues to wrestle with a mountain of debt, Centro Properties Group, a poster child of the credit crunch, on Tuesday announced the sale of the first piece of its 106.5-million-square-foot U.S. portfolio...
Smoldering CMBS
Aug 1, 2008
When the credit crunch first broke in earnest last fall and froze the U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market in its tracks, ...
