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Volume 2 - Number 13 | July 18, 2005
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TOP STORY: CMBS Transactions Hit Record High; Climb Continues
By Erika Morphy
With little fanfare or formality, the CMBS market reached a benchmark at mid-year. Deals in the month of June registered a record high, at $22.6 billion in transactions, according to industry statistics. What's more, sources say, this number is slightly understated as one deal priced after the statistics were disseminated.
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INSIDER: Buchanan Street Partners' Tim Hawthorne
By Benjamin Mark Cole
Newport Beach, CA-based Buchanan Street Partners, with branches in Los Angeles and San Francisco, invests throughout the Golden State. But lately the company has been particularly interested in a hotbed of California real estate, the Inland Empire, where industrial property is springing up practically overnight. Buchanan executive vice president Tim Hawthorne recently sat down to talk about how deals in the Inland Empire are increasingly being structured.
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One-Stop Finance Shops Provide 'Good Resources' Despite Potential Conflicts
By Erika Morphy
Few observers in the real estate industry expect the trend of one-stop real estate finance shopping—typified last month with CB Richard Ellis' announcement last month that it had raised $300 million in financing through a private placement—to diminish. Indeed, many observers expect this trend to spread to include even more products.
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CapitalWatch: REIT Capital-Raising Projected Strong for Year's Second Half
By Benjamin Mark Cole
REITs had a slew of capital-raising events in June and leading into July—but with real estate prices perhaps reaching a peak now, as interest rates rise further, will REITs be able to tap capital markets to such an extent in the second half of the year? The experts say yes. In fact, they think the second act may in fact be stronger than the first.
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