Amazon.com Inc. isn’t big enough? Amazon – with a $464 billion market cap, which is double the size of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and bigger than Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG and Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) combined – is building at least four massive warehouses to fulfill and deliver bulky products…»
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CMBS loan defaults are poised to rise sharply this year, Fitch Ratings said Monday. The catalyst is a rise in maturity defaults, Fitch says, although term defaults are expected to increase marginally year over year. “Over 75% of term defaults last year were from 2006 and 2007 vintages,”…»
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New real estate fund managers are finding it difficult to close funds, perhaps reflecting a general mood of caution and transaction slowdown in the market. A new report from London-based research firm Preqin found that institutional investors continue to limit…» |
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Arizona economic developers and business recruiters always like a bit of positive coverage especially after the state’s immigration battles and being ground zero for the last real estate crash and recession. Well, the BBC is delivering with a story on the growth and strength of the finance and banking sector in Arizona.…»
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Sales of commercial office, industrial and retail buildings were mixed in the first quarter, according to new numbers from Colliers International (Nasdaq: CIGI). Transaction activity for office sales in the Phoenix market was down 10 percent from the fourth quarter and was down 23 percent from the first quarter of 2015.…»
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