December 12, 2010
A pall has settled over the U.S. housing market. The first-time home buyer's credit has dried up, and home prices are down 29 percent from their 2006 peak. On Dec. 9 ...
December 5, 2010
Investor appetite for income has made commercial real estate investment trusts, many of which own regional shopping malls, among the hottest stocks this year. As of ...
November 28, 2010
It's an unsettling time to be shopping for a home. Home values have yet to stabilize in three-quarters of U.S. metropolitan areas. Alarm about so-called robo-signing ...
November 4, 2010
In October, an investment group that included Blackstone Group (BX), Paulson & Co., and Centerbridge Partners purchased Extended Stay, a bankrupt U.S. hotel owner, for...
November 3, 2010
(Updates in 5th paragraph to include Nov. 4 report from TrimTabs.) The U.S. commercial real estate market has so far averted the catastrophe that many strategists were...
November 2, 2010
Baker Hughes: Miller Tabak equity analyst Kevin Simpson raised a rating on shares of Baker Hughes (BHI) to buy, from neutral, on Nov. 2, with a price target of $60. On...
October 19, 2010
Analysts can't agree on whether prominent homebuilders such as Pulte Group (PHM), Ryland Group (RYL), KB Home (KBH), and M.D.C. Holdings (MDC) will lose money or make ...
October 7, 2010
Ten years ago, reverse mortgages were primarily used by widowed or single women well into their 70s with little other means of retirement income. Now, big losses to ...
August 30, 2010
The U.S. commercial real estate market has so far averted the catastrophe that many strategists were predicting last year. Even after sales of existing homes plummeted...
July 12, 2010
The prospect of a company's declaring a special dividend valued at $5.6 billion—and higher regular dividends in the future due to a tax-exempt corporate ...
July 12, 2010
Corporate Office Properties Trust: Keefe, Bruyette & Woods initiated coverage on shares of Corporate Office Properties Trust (OFC), a real estate investment trust ...
July 1, 2010
Businessweek.com compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of July 1. Michael Feroli, JPMorgan Chase Incoming...
April 27, 2010
Looking at the big gains in homebuilders' stock prices thus far in 2010, anyone would think the housing downturn and all its residual effects had completely passed. ...
March 10, 2010
By Bloomberg BusinessWeek Staff Bloomberg BusinessWeek compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of Mar. 10. ...
February 26, 2010
America's housing market implosion was the epicenter of the Great Recession. It's hardly surprising that the federal government directed enormous resources at the ...
February 23, 2010
The rest of the U.S. economy may be bouncing back, but for the battered housing sector, the hopes of economists and real estate experts are still modest. "Recovery is ...
February 15, 2010
Unlike much of the market, most of the homebuilder stocks have continued to rally this year, albeit bumpily, despite renewed concerns about the pace of economic ...
December 17, 2009
By John Gittelsohn and John Detrixhe (Bloomberg)—The outlook for U.S. homebuilders improved to "stable" for the first time in almost four years, Moody's ...
November 24, 2009
BusinessWeek compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of Nov. 24. Paul Ashworth, Capital Economics The ...
November 23, 2009
There are yet more signs that the crippled U.S. housing sector is getting back on its feet. On Nov. 23 news arrived that U.S. existing home sales jumped 10.1% in ...
November 17, 2009
Anyone who's been paying attention to Wall Street investment strategists' forecasts for 2010 knows that a potential avalanche of commercial real estate foreclosures ...
August 6, 2009
This is the first column for BusinessWeek by David Phillips, who examines companies' financial statements and writes the 10-Q Detective blog. Vornado Realty Trust ...
June 16, 2009
A vast array of companies—from homebuilders to home-improvement stores and furniture manufacturers—profited from the U.S. housing boom and then suffered ...
June 11, 2009
Home Depot (HD) offered some encouragement to bullish investors on June 10 when the retailer raised its earnings estimates for the year. The home improvement giant ...
June 9, 2009
Here's a feedback loop that nobody expected: It looks like investors' expectations for an economic recovery could end up delaying that very scenario. Fear of inflation...
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