Chris Macke is a senior real estate strategist for the CoStar Group and a former vice president with GE Real Estate.
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Steven Loh, a businessman from Singapore who runs a real-estate advisory group called Silkrouteasia Capital Partners, is a bulk buyer.
In 2005, I was sitting at a table in the middle of Silicon Valley talking to a group of wealthy real estate investors.
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Accelerator is a management company created by a group of health care-focused venture firms, a real estate firm and the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology.
The play "Glengarry Glen Ross, " for example, for which Mr. Mamet won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, is about a group of desperate men competing with each other in a Chicago real estate office.
Ralph Rosenberg, head of the real-estate group, has a preference for shopping beyond major metro areas where prices have been getting quite high.
Lu Guanqiu chairs the Hangzhou-based Wanxiang Group, a conglomerate with interests in real estate, finance and auto parts manufacturing.
But it was his daughter Kamala Sukosol who used the real estate to transform the group into a hospitality pioneer in Pattaya.
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As a cofounder of Poly Real Estate Group, Zhang owns over 200 million shares in the company, which is one of the main sources of his wealth.
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Even with home values down--80% of the market is distressed sales, says Dan DeNuccio, a real estate broker with Prudential Americana Group in Las Vegas.
"Commercial real estate lending is a much larger group of banks, " says Pamela Martin of the Risk Management Association, noting that it takes up as much as 25% of the balance sheets of many local and regional banks.
Rockpoint Group, a Boston-based private-equity real-estate firm, last year closed down its Frankfurt office.
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Then in 1996 a German real estate investment firm called Fundus Group bought it and began restoration.
Sun is the chairman of Xinjiang Guanghui Industrial Investment Group of Xinjiang, a conglomerate with large energy and real estate businesses.
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"There's going to be some investor trepidation, " said Christian Busken, a real-estate analyst for Fund Evaluation Group, which advises institutional clients.
In October 2009, Ivanka married Jared Kushner, a part-owner of the real estate group Kushner Companies (founded by his father, Charles) and the publisher of the New York Observer.
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Plus, there is no secondary market for these assets, so "you're toast if you need to sell" before the properties are ultimately resold, says Brandon Balkman, executive director of the Real Estate Investment Securities Association, a trade group.
But as Ireland's National Asset Management Agency known as NAMA picks up the pace of its sales efforts, a group of supporters is emerging in the real-estate industry who say it has done the best job possible, given the terrible hand it was dealt.
The Peel Group, an infrastructure and real-estate outfit, hosted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo last year.
Then in 2011, mired in debt from the real estate crash, it was bought by a group that included hedge funder, John Paulson, and the Winthrop Realty Trust.
CalCEF and its partners made a concerted effort, Bamberger says, to solicit input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including experts from the real estate, banking, labor, and energy sectors, to arrive at the recommendations included in the paper.
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After six months of negotiations with the British government, The Economist Group can confirm that Econoland will be built on a former industrial estate in East London, close to the beating heart of the City and thus to a large potential market of financial-sector employees.
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Ms. Tisch could help boost Mr. Thompson's credentials in the city's prominent real estate, business and financial circles, a crucial group for fundraising.
She jumped at the opportunity and found herself in New York a few years later as part of the global real estate group.
Without leaving the estate, you can also join a bird-watching group, embark on a nature trail safari or take a photography class.
According to the allegations, Peterson encouraged Morgan Stanley to sell an interest in a Shanghai real-estate deal to Shanghai Yongye Enterprise (Group) Co.
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Lennar is joining with Wilson Meany, a San Francisco developer, along with Stockbridge Capital Group, Hillwood, Scala, Estein and Kenwood Investments, a real-estate fund founded by former Democratic lobbyist Darius Anderson, to build the Treasure Island project, which includes up to 8, 000 homes, a 500-room hotel and about 300, 000 square feet of commercial space.
Guangzhou-based Evergrande Real Estate Group rose 16%, one of many developers that outpaced a 5.6% gain in Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index.
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CoStar Group ( CSGP), a provider of information and marketing services to commercial real estate professionals in the United States as well as the United Kingdom, has seen consensus estimates fall meaningfully lower for both 2013 and 2014 following a rare earnings miss on February 27.
One researcher for the group found nine cluster bombs -- an internationally banned weapon -- in a housing estate, the report states.
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