The Flip Board® – Real Estate Blog

The takeover battle for the U.S. mall owner heated up as the company unveiled a deal for investor Brookfield to help finance its emergence from bankruptcy.

Hedge-fund investor David Tepper has stepped into the battle over the fate of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, the giant New York City complex involved one of the largest commercial real-estate failures.

The financial secretary warned in the annual budget address of an 'increased risk of a bubble forming in the property market,' on recent signs of rising prices in the residential and land markets.

Refocusing on Its core business sends the stock of Entertainment Properties soaring. "It's a very good time to be a theater owner."

Investments by Calpers in deals that included converting low-rent properties to market-rent apartments raises concerns.

Simon Property Group executives are peeved that General Growth Properties is in advanced talks with another suitor but still hadn't agreed on terms for talks with Simon in recent days.

The increase for a second month in a row triggers fresh debate over whether the sector has reached bottom.

The hotel in Berlin hit the ground running and Design Hotels members navigated the recession better than many industry peers.

In the current state of the US economy, it is undoubtedly difficult to manage a new portfolio of real estate and keep it profitable. Just look at the fact that housing prices and home values are at multi-year lows. If you are not cash flow positive,  then it is next to impossible to grow a successful portfolio.  What do you do? Continue to buy and hold? Start accepting literally anybody as a tenant in the hopes that you will become cash flow positive?

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In 2006, Long Island banker Bradley E. Rock was one of the industry's loudest opponents of a proposed crackdown on lending. Now his bank is a dramatic example of what regulators were so worried about.