Archive for January, 2007

Commercial Real Estate Syndication: Property Selection and Purchase, Part 1

Let’s assume that you’ve decided to start assembling groups of investors to buy investment real estate. If you followed my Roadmap of a successful syndication in my previous articles (Part 1 and Part 2), then you know that the first step is to research a neighborhood and pick a property to buy. You’ll [...]

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Mortgage Loan Market Commentary

A BUSY WEEK FOR RATES  This week brings us the release of seven pieces of economic data to digest.  It is also a shortened trading week with the stock and bond markets being closed today in observance of the Martin Luther King Day holiday.  The markets will reopen Tuesday morning for regular trading hours, but should [...]

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Commercial Real Estate: Outlook At The Power Breakfast

A GOOD OUTLOOK FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IN 2007 I had the opportunity to sit in at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) annual “Power Breakfast” that featured some high powered institutional investors as panelists. They included Erwin Aullis, the Managing Director of Transwestern Investment Company, Stanley L. Iezman, the President of American [...]

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A Roadmap For Commercial Real Estate Syndications, Part 2

HOW TO DO YOUR OWN SYNDICATIONS, Part 2 Last week I covered the first ten steps to creating your own investment groups for commercial real estate acquisitions.  I was able to take the process right up to the acquisition of the property and I’ll cover the balance of the process here.  The focus of these articles [...]

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Mortgage Loan Market Commentary

A QUIET WEEK FOR BONDS  This is a very quiet week in terms of the number of economic reports to be released.  We’ll only see two relevant pieces and only one of them is considered to be of significant importance.  We will also get weekly unemployment claims, but it usually has little impact on bond trading [...]

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