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Volume 2 - Number 4 | February 24, 2005
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TOP STORY: Tax Assessors Becoming More Aggressive With Commercial Property Owners
By Erika Morphy
Tax assessors have always focused on commercial properties within their jurisdictions, of course, especially high-income or trophy buildings. But over the past two years in general—and past six months in particular—observers report that local authorities around the country are ratcheting up activities in order to increase their tax assessments on properties.
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10 MINUTES WITH…..Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s Charles Roberts
By Erika Morphy
The timing could not have been better as far as attorney Charles Roberts was concerned, when he was selected last October to serve as chairman of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association’s international committee. As the London-based special counsel for Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP and a key player within the firm's European CMBS team, Roberts knew firsthand of the brewing developments in this space around the world and the potential they held for international and even cross-border CMBS transactions.
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Starting New Fundraising Effort, Arden Bullish On Prospects
By Benjamin Mark Cole
In this financing environment, REITs seem easily able to raise money, either for concrete acquisitions—witness Los Angeles-based Maguire Properties Inc.’s recent announcement that it will buy a $1.5 billion office portfolio with funds provided by Credit Suisse First Boston—or possibly just to have a war chest at the ready. And the latter situation just may be the case of Arden Realty, another Los Angeles-based REIT.
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