Commercial Property News Archive for 13-Nov-2007

Bankers turn towards property derivatives (Financial Times)

Bankers are increasingly using derivatives to exploit the contrasting outlook for commercial property in the US and UK in another powerful sign of the potential of this fast-growing market.

Blackstone?s results (Financial Times)

Blackstone marked the commercial real estate boom?s apex in February with its $39bn deal to buy Equity Office Properties. It undertook a far less exhilarating task on Monday as it laid out the early-stage effects of the commercial property market?s subsequent backslide.

Bearish mood in US commercial property sector (Financial Times)

?In the US we?ve spent 15 years building the concept of securitisation into real estate,? said Eric Schwartz, joint head of Deutsche Bank?s commercial property arm. ?I don?t think anybody is prepared to believe that the events of the last three months have changed everything.?

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