Real Estate

Real Estate investment going up in the U.S. Say what?

April 7, 2010 Ainsley Brown 2 comments

By: Eran D. Grossman Yes that’s right. With growing concern about a commercial real estate bust and home prices continuing to fall, real estate stocks are soaring. What you say? Shares of Real Estate Investments Trusts, a/k/a REITs, are lucrative investment vehicles thus far in 2010. The IShares Dow Jones Real Estate exchange-traded fund, which owns about seventy-five real estate

Asset Management, Commercial, Corporate, Economy, Finance, Investment, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Trusts

Community banks taking major hit as U.S. Commercial Real Estate value drops

March 31, 2010 Ainsley Brown Leave a comment

By: Eran D. Grossman, Esq. More problems are on the horizon between government regulators and local U.S. banks (smaller, regional and/or community banks) over how to handle falling commercial property values. Currently, banks are holding roughly $1.9 billion in commercial real estate loans, which equals about a quarter of all outstanding loans, according to Moody’s. The values of such loans

Banking, Commercial, debt, Finance, Government Policy, Investment, Real Estate, Regulation