East West Commercial Real Estate

Strapped MTA’s sad real estate of affairs
The cash-strapped MTA has squandered a fortune in botched real-estate transactions — failing to collect millions in outstanding rent, refusing to charge interest on that money, and hanging onto lucrative air rights over some property, a bombshell investigation found. These revelations come on the heels of the most drastic subway…

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Commercial Real Estate: Ryland Homes pays about $17.8M for Muirkirk parcel
Ryland Homes has bought 45 acres for $17.76 million at Brick Yard Station in Muirkirk, where developer Jackson-Shaw said it will turn its attention from office buildings to the residential component of the 125-acre planned community.

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Investors Real Estate Trust Reports Fourth Quarter 2010 Financial and Operating Results
MINOT, N.D. — Investors Real Estate Trust today reported its financial and operating results for the year and three months ended April 30, 2010.

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Banks Return to Commercial Mortgage Bonds
Once dominant, and then dormant, commercial real estate loans are beginning to show signs of life on the trading floor after a two-year slump, Jotham Sederstrom reports in The New York Times.

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