With high unemployment pushing up vacancies, no credit capacity and property values plummeting, commercial real estate markets remain extremely stressed with little prospect for significant near-term improvement, according to The Real Estate Roundtable’s latest quarterly survey of senior commercial real estate executives. All three indices tracked by the "Sentiment Survey" have risen considerably since the near-collapse of financial markets last fall—a reflection of respondents’ collective sense of relief at having survived the worst of the turmoil, and the Read more

In a world where it seems like everything is changing, isn’t it comforting to know that some things just never change? Basic human nature is one of them. While we credit Abraham Maslow for documenting the five basic human needs, they have been around since the beginning of time. They are:Read more