REC staff

All sectors except offices ended last year in negative growth territory – and even offices are feeling the squeeze.

Jones Lang LaSalle market commentary

2011 failed to make good on expectations of optimistic first half

Lauren Parr reports on the challenges of restructuring Guy Hands’ German multifamily monolith

Restructuring deals and loan sales on the rise as banks drop “extend and pretend”, says Lauren Parr

Working party of 10-12 to be led by Christian Lambie and Charles Roberts

REC global commentary An apocalyptic August and first two weeks of September for equities markets saw property shares fall 11.4% globally from the mid-July peak, giving up all this year’s gains. Global total returns collapsed in August to -6.6%. Australia was the only leading market to show a positive return, 1.7%, outperforming local equities markets as […]

Real Estate Capital UK commentary UK REITs were mauled during August’s stock market volatility. Their share prices, which had steadily outperformed equities for the first half of the year, fell in line with the market generally. In terms of total returns, in August, UK REITs returned -9.9% against the FTSE 100’s -6.5%. Economic confidence has […]

Maturing CMBS loan volumes will leap in 2012, when €14.4bn by balance will need to be refinanced: £5bn in sterling and almost €8.5bn in euro. As at the end of July, delinquent loans equated to 11.67% of the outstanding euro loan balance and 6.73% for sterling loans. A breakdown of loans in special servicing (by […]

Pricing for 2012 contracts plummeted from 4% in late July to 1.5% this month, reflecting the gloomier economic outlook