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AOL Puts Up 130K For Sublease

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, Yesterday, Read 0 times. Similar articles

That was quick. AOL takes down 225K, puts up 130K for sublease. Asking $2.25 NNN. Flyer below. Read more

AOL Takes Down 395 Page Mill Road

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 5 days ago, Read 1 times. Similar articles

AOL has subleased the entirety of 395 Page Mill Road from Google. The 225,000 Class A Office/R&D building had been leased by Google (from Jay Paul) several years ago though it was never occupied. The deal represents a fairly good value in Palo Alto’s tight market, though it’s not clear if AOL will absorb all the space [...] Read more

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A Quick Thought on Carried Interest

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

John Reeder over at MarketWi.Se has a post up with some of his views on the carried interest tax as well as those of Fred Wilson, a prominent venture capitalist. There has been a lot of debate about this tax, and I’ve even posted a couple times here and there on the issue. Much of the debate [...] Read more

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Let The Feeding Frenzy Begin: Parkmerced In Default

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Multifamily investors have been and continue to run around like addicts looking for their next fix. So surely there will be a frenzy to get a chomp at the bit of Parkmerced, the 116-acre San Francisco apartment community which has apparently gone to special servicing. Parkmerced is essentially the StuyTown of San Francisco. [via SF Chronicle] Read more

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Prudential's Case for CRE

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Prudential has released a mini-report titled “Revisiting the Case for Commercial Real Estate”. It covers all the basics but surprisingly keeps the Challenges & Risks to a brief five paragraphs. It talks about interest rate risk, but doesn’t talk about the credit rating of the US. It talks about the financing gap but doesn’t go [...] Read more

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Not Much To Say

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Bad news on the heels of bad news. There are pockets of strength here and there, but overall the sentiment is what drives the equity markets and it seems we’ve reached a point where the self-fulfilling prophecy is achieved by a bunch of machines. Sprinkle in reckless spending and it won’t take long for things [...] Read more

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Moody's/REAL CPPI Index Down .5% in March

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index dropped .5% in March. This marks the second month in a row that prices have dropped after a few months of increases. The index is now 42.1% off the peak. Despite the overall decline in the index, some positives were Apartments and Industrial in the top-10 MSAs. In the West [...] Read more

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Moody's/REAL CPPI Index Down 5% in March

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index dropped 5% in March. This marks the second month in a row that prices have dropped after a few months of increases. The index is now 42.1% off the peak. Despite the overall decline in the index, some positives were Apartments and Industrial in the top-10 MSAs. In the West [...] Read more

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40 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

1 in 8 Americans is now receiving food stamps, a new record. Despite the economy purportedly adding jobs again, it is also adding to the number of people on food stamps. The USDA numbers show that 39.68M Americans were receiving food stamps in February, up 260,000 from January. And the problem is expected to grow. With [...] Read more

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Wal-Mart Scoping Former Mervyn's Spaces in Southern California

From Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Wal-Mart is opening up a mini-version of its Supercenters in in-fill markets in Southern California. It has signed a lease to take over a former 75,000SF Mervyn’s. The typical Supercenter is 150K+ SF. The company is also testing even smaller-format 10-20K sites in various parts of the country. The decision to “downsize” in in-fill markets is [...] Read more

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