Commercial Property News Archive for 18-Jan-2008

Valad chief warns of risky valuations (News Interactive)

VALAD Property Group chairman Stephen Day is the latest senior property figure to warn of the proliferation of inflated valuations in the commercial property market.

Office market in D.C. cautious (The Washington Times)

Washington's commercial property market will not be bad in 2008, just not as good as the past five...

U.K. Commercial Property Returns Decline by Record (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)

Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. commercial real estate returns fell by a record amount last month as banks' tighter lending terms accelerated a decline in property values, according to Investment Property Databank Ltd.

Fitch Expects Higher Defaults on CMBS (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Defaults on commercial property loans bundled into bonds will probably double and may even triple this year, Fitch Ratings said in a report Thursday.

Record monthly fall for IPD index (FT.com via Yahoo! News)

The commercial property market suffered its worst month on record in December, according to the key sector benchmark.