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CoStar Group, Inc. is the leading provider of information services to commercial real estate property investors and sales professionals in the United States and United Kingdom. CoStar's suite of services offers access to the most comprehensive database of commercial real estate information and commercial property listings available in its markets.
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CoStar's People of Note (Jan. 29-Feb. 4)
This week's People of Note includes the following markets: Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Milwaukee/Madison, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, South Florida, Washington, DC.
LOS ANGELES
Cockrum Joins Lowe Enterprises Investors as SVP
By Laurie Forbes
Lowe Enterprises Investors hired William M. Cockrum IV as senior vice president to head the company?s marketing and capital raising efforts. He will be based in th
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GREEN LEAD | Green Building News from CoStar
GREEN LEAD is a column on environmental and sustainable design and construction, best practices for green building maintenance and operations, economic impact on developers and owners, new LEED and Energy Star building certifications, and trends in the Green Building movement.
Send in your Green News Leads to news@costar.com
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EXCLUSIVE: C-III Capital's Robert Lieber On NAI Global Acquisition and Growth Plans
Real estate investment firm C-III Capital Partners LLC last week completed its acquisition of Princeton, NJ-based NAI Global. The long-awaited closing came seven months after the transaction was announced in June, leading some to wonder if the deal had fallen by the wayside. But C-III was hardly idle during that time, acquiring three other companies and making a major play for cash-strapped CRE services firm Grubb & Ellis Co.
As reported by CoStar...
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Latest Potential Investor In Grubb & Ellis Emerges From Talks Without Agreement
A two-week period of exclusive negotiations between Grubb & Ellis Co. and New York-based financial brokerage BGC Partners expired Tuesday without an agreement, according to a document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Under the previous agreement, Grubb & Ellis provided an exclusive right to negotiate for BGC Partners, headed by chief executive Howard Ludnick, to pursue a debt or equity financing agreement or acquisition of...
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Warehouse Occupancy Rising, Market Remains Stable and Positive, Still Not at Point for Higher Rents, New Construction
With the gradual return of economic growth, including higher levels of manufacturing and consumer spending, the vacancy rate for U.S. warehouses continued to decline at the end of 2011 as the property sector was buoyed by its strongest quarter for net absorption since late 2008.
The vacancy rate tracked across 210 markets by Property and Portfolio Research (PPR), CoStar?s analytics and forecasting division, declined to 9.6% in the fourth quarter...
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No More Fear and Loathing of CRE Lending for Banks
As economic headwinds subside, the commercial real estate lending business for U.S. banks has hit an inflection point. For the first time in five years, a majority of banks are finally talking about their ability to grow their loan portfolios.
While the sentiment among banks is neither unanimous, nor the projected lending growth strong, bank executives in analyst earnings calls over the past couple of weeks were clearly signaling they believe they...
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Back in Business: CRE Sales Volumes Make Strong Comeback
The dollar volume of commercial real estate sales vaulted back to longterm historical levels in 2011. CoStar Group has confirmed $291.6 billion in CRE sales in 2011, a 32% increase over the sales volume in 2010.
Last year's volume bested the 12-year average volume of $254.2 billion. However, the 2011 dollar volume is still overshadowed by credit-bubble level of $560.5 billion in 2007.
Sales of office property led all other types in dollar volume...
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Bank Watch: First Billion-Dollar Bank of the Year Fails
Regulators took over four banks in the past week, including the $1.2 billion-sized Tennessee Commerce Bank of Franklin, TN, one other Tennessee bank and one each in Florida and Minnesota.
Republic Bank & Trust Co. (RB&T) in Louisville, KY, acquired Tennessee Commerce Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC").
In addition to assuming approximately $1 billion of the deposits of TCB (both insured and uninsured), RB&T purchased...
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Real Money: Goldman Sachs Hits the Street with $1.15 Bil. CMBS Deal
Goldman Sachs is the putting out the first new CMBS offering of 2012.
GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2012-GC6 is a pool of 80 fixed-rate loans totaling $1.15 billion and backed by 127 properties.
The loans were originated by Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company (45.8%), Citigroup Global Markets Realty Corp. (45.1%), and Archetype Mortgage Funding ILLC (9.1%).
According to Moody's Investors Service, the concentration of multifamily and manufacturing...
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In The Pipeline: CoStar Development & Construction News for Jan. 29 - Feb. 4
In The Pipeline is a column on significant acquisitions of commercial land for sale, and other transactions and trends affecting office, industrial, flex, multifamily, mixed-use, hotel and public works developers. Send us news leads about your new commercial real estate project -- and sign up to be added to our distribution list to receive future In the Pipeline columns by e-mail.
Trammell Crow, Principal Launch $1B Development Program
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