Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Matthew Anderson, a partner at Foresight Analytics, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about the commercial real-estate market. Anderson speaks from San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — John Burns, president of John Burns Real Estate Consulting Inc., talks with Bloombergs Betty Liu about the implications of what he describes as a “shadow inventory” of homes risking foreclosure. Burns, speaking from Irvine, California, also discusses the potential effects of an increase in mortgage rates and the outlook for the US housing market. (Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Nicholas Consonery, Asia specialist at the Eurasia Group, talks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller and Carol Massar about China’s efforts to cool its economy. Chinas central bank took the second step in a month to restrain inflation and damp asset prices, ordering lenders on the eve of a weeklong holiday to set aside larger reserves. (Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about the outlook for community banks that have exposure to commercial real estate loans. Warren, speaking from Newton, Massachusetts, also discusses the need for so-called stress tests on community banks. Commercial real estate loans have potential to go sour and wreck the US economy unless regulators prepare now, according to a report from the watchdog for the federal financial rescue program. (Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Stan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow.com, talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about the outlook for US home prices and foreclosures. More than a fifth of US homeowners owed more than their properties were worth in the fourth quarter as the number of houses and condominiums lost to foreclosure climbed to a record, according to Zillow. (Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Craig Leupold, president of real estate consultants Green Street Advisors, talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar about the outlook for the commercial property market and investing in so-called blind-pool assets. Leupold says commercial property values “troughed” in the middle of 2009. (Source: Bloomberg)
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