If landlords across the country can make it through the coming layoff season, (November – January), they may begin to see some stabilization in demand from commercial tenants for space.

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Employment Demand Outlook: Need To Survive the Next Three Months

Care Investment Trust Inc., a New York-based health care REIT managed by CIT Healthcare, a subsidiary of CIT Group Inc., is nearing completion of a review of its strategic alternatives and expects to make a decision regarding its future over the next…

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CIT Group’s Care Investment Trust Considering Sale or Merger

While occupancy levels and average daily rates (ADR) in the last quarter of 2009 are expected to remain below levels from one year ago, resulting in a 16.4% decrease in room revenue per available room (RevPAR) in 2009, PricewaterhouseCoopers expects hotel…

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Worst May Be Over for Hotels

It’s a tough time being a small business lender these days. This week, Advanta Corp

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Bank Watch: Small Business Banks Floundering

CBL & Associates Properties Inc. closed the extension and modification of its $560 million credit facility, maintaining 100% lending capacity.

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Real Money (Nov. 12, 2009): Capital Raisings, Property Financings

Just one in twenty Americans say they plan to buy a home within the next year, and they’re most likely to be 34 years old or younger and living in the South or West, according to a survey. United States – West – Property – Business and Economy – Government

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Only 5 percent plan to buy a home next year

As the green building movement convenes this week at the annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Phoenix, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued a report providing 7.9 million reasons to support green building — jobs. The report…

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USGBC: 7.9 Million Jobs Tied to Green Construction Over Next Four Years

After what’s seemed like an eternity of little or no action in the retail property investment arena, several major retail investment transactions north of $100 million have surfaced since October.

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Institutional Investors Throwing Big Money Around Class A Quality Retail Property

Huawei Technologies has signed a 103,331-square-foot lease at Legacy Place II in Plano, TX. The building will serve as the global communications company’s new sales and marketing headquarters in North America. The six-story, 150,000-square-foot office…

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Huawei Moves to Legacy Place II, Promises 600 Jobs

News of corporate expansions, relocations, extensions, closures, layoffs, lease cancellations and mergers has been consolidated into Lease Up/Lease Down.

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Lease Up/Lease Down (Nov. 8-14): Layoffs: A Sprint to the Bottom Line