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Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial Real Estate Blog
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A Commercial Real Estate Blog focusing on all aspects of Commercial Real Estate with a focus on Silicon Valley
Recent Posts
Tim Geithner on CNBC – Deficits Down in 2011
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was on CNBC. He talks about pockets of strength in the economy, including technology and exports. If those are the only two, we’re in trouble because those two are driven by a weak dollar and rebuilding of invent...
Banks Not Even Half Way Through CRE Writedowns
Moody’s is estimating that banks still have about $336B in write-downs to take next year, with $186B of that stemming from commercial real estate. While residential real estate is widely assumed to have peaked, and is spread across a large numb...
Clock Ticking For Morgan Stanley Fund V
We had covered Morgan Stanley’s troubles in the recent past, including its walking away from its massive Crescent deal, and the looming troubles it is facing on the CNL deal (think Maui Prince), and the Blackstone/Equity Office assets it acquir...
Chinese News Covers Tiger Incident
For those that get upset when I go “off topic”, here is a disclaimer: This post also has nothing to do with commercial real estate. ...
Donald Trump on CNBC
Wilbur Ross, Sam Zell, Richard LeFrak on CNBC – The Billionaire’s Roundtable
CNBC featured a two-part “Billionaire’s Roundtable” featuring Wilbur Ross, Sam Zell, and Richard LeFrak. Some of the slogans: “Dilution is the Solution”, Owners in “Negative Leverage Purgatory”, “What H...

