We have been searching for even a sintilla of good news, when it comes to the real estate market.  
With regard to commercial real estate, one noted real estate attorney has coined the banks recent leding philosophy as “extend and pretend.” Clearly there exists the “fear of catching a falling knife.”
So the question is, are things really getting any better? […]

We all learn and process information differently. Some have found it difficult to understand the current financial crisis and what the government is doing to stimulate the economy.
So here is another way to visualize the capital allocated from/to financial companies during the current financial crisis.
Interestingly, the chart created by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods concludes that […]

In todays WSJ there is a rather telling article entiled, Real-Estate Industry Pushes Fed to Lengthen TALF Terms, which may be of interest to our readers.

Acording to the piece, the real-estate industry is lobbying the Federal Reserve to modify a bailout program that many believe may avert a wave of commercial-property defaults.
Real-estate owners and investors […]