Jim Blasingame, one of the world’s foremost experts on small business and entrepreneurship, dishes about the “Not-So-Great Recovery” and decline in entrepreneurial optimism.  His advice?  Small business CEOs need to learn to balance the force of entrepreneurial optimism with the gravity of economic reality.  Adopt this mantra: “If it is to be, it is up..

1.  Additive Printing Additive or 3D printing, a process used to make product prototypes, may actually be able to replace the manufacturing process in the near future.  This trend could result in lost manufacturing jobs, offset by new types of jobs in software programming and designing.  What does it mean for CRE?  There will no longer..

Is it possible that CRE CDOs are showing stability and inching toward recovery?  Yes, according to Fitch Ratings.  After nearly three years, the global ratings firm has started to receive more inquiries about new CRE CDOs.  B-notes, mezzanine loans, REIT debt, and seasoned multi and single borrower CMBS bonds have contributed to the broad range of..

The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index is now 47% below the peak of October 2007, a 4.2% drop since this February. The sales of distressed properties amounted to almost one third of all March’s transactions, and continue to hurt real estate values and cause the index to drag along the bottom.  Overall, the index shows..

Part 1.  The Usage Clause   In a typical lease negotiation, the parties, the attorneys, and the brokers often focus only on the key financial aspects within the lease document.  Watch out!  There are subtle and seemingly innocuous clauses that can cost the tenant a pretty penny long after the lease has been signed.  Stay..