Commercial Real Estate Market Cools (KITV Honolulu)
In the new year, many are predicting tougher times for commercial real estate.

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.

APPLAUSE (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)
Debi Good has joined Realtec Fort Collins as an administrative assistant. She was involved in commercial property management before joining Realtec.

As Vacant Office Space Grows, So Does Lenders Crisis (The Hendersonville Times-News)
Rising vacancy rates across the country could make it hard for building owners to pay their mortgages.

Four Dallas-area industrial buildings sold (Dallas Morning News)
Investor RREEF has sold four Dallas-area industrial buildings to a local partnership. The buildings in Carrollton and Richardson contain almost 250,000 square feet.

No federal bailouts for commercial real estate developers (Seattle Times)
The federal government should refuse the latest group with a request for a federal bailout — commercial real-estate developers. The federal infusion of money to shore up financial institutions was reasonable because the potential domino effect of failure threatened international banking system. The U.S. Treasury cannot heal every economic ill, and it needs to draw the line well short of ...

Commercial property-the next domino to drop (Calcutta News)
2009 is expected to be a bad year for US commercial real estate.

Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals (New York Times)
The credit crisis and recession crushed deal making in office buildings in 2008.

High office building vacancies may mean trouble for banks (New London Day)
Vacancy rates in office buildings exceed 10 percent in virtually every major city in the country and are rising rapidly, a sign of economic distress

U.S. Private Equity Firms Seek Bargains in Japanese REIT Market (Commercial Property News)
Japanese REITs, which have lost more than 50 percent of their value on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since their peak last year, are increasingly attracting the attention of U.S.-based private equity firms like Oaktree Capital Management, which has launched the first tender offer for a REIT in Japan.