Commercial properties face bursting bubble (Moldova.org)
Rising vacancy rates in U.S. office buildings are pointing to a possibility that a commercial real estate bubble could burst, industry observes said.Vacancy rates have reached 10 percent and are rising quickly in major U.S. cities, The New York Times reported Monday.The Real Estate Roundtable, a lobbying group in Washington, has asked Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. to include commercial ...

2008: The year that wasn’t in commercial real estate (BizJournals)
In many ways, 2008 was the year that wasn’t in the Louisville commercial real estate market.

Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals (New York Times)
By most accounts, the commercial property market reached its pinnacle in early 2007 with the Blackstone Group ’s acquisition of Equity Office Properties Trust and its prized cache of more than 500 office buildings.

Proposed downtown office buildings off to mixed starts (BizJournals)
THEN Date: March 14, 2008 Headline: ‘Downtown office towers jump off starting block in tandem’

Jani-King Southwest tidies more than 10 million square feet of office space daily (BizJournals)
Julie Robinson’s parents have owned and operated the Arizona master franchise rights for Jani-King Southwest since 1987.