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Realtors: Tight Credit Choking CRE Loans

May 28, 2012    
While the commercial real estate market showed signs of recovery in 2011, credit tightened in the past year for small businesses, according to a National Association of Realtors (NAR) survey. NAR reported that 474 commercial real estate agents credited a lack of capital for soured deals on...
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FTC: $860M CRE Acquisition ‘Anticompetitive’

May 28, 2012    
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is putting a damper on the U.S.'s largest provider of commercial real estate information services, breaking up what CoStar Group had hoped to be a lucrative combination of its services after acquiring LoopNet for $860 million. Although CoStar and LoopNet will...
Owner Loses

Lease Termination Delayed for Tenant to Cure Violations

May 28, 2012    
Facts: The owner of a building used as a supermarket terminated its tenant's lease and ordered it to move out of the space because the tenant had allegedly “incurably” defaulted on the lease—that is, violated the lease in a way that couldn't be fixed—by failing to...