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November 6, 2008
Investing in Medical Office Net Lease Properties
Incorporating the investment of commercial real estate into an investment portfolio continues to be a preferred investment alternative. Of the various property types available in the market, the healthcare sector is a chosen favorite among investors.

November 3, 2008
Stan Johnson Company Hires First Houston Broker
Two months after opening its local shop, Tulsa, OK-based Stan Johnson Co. has scored its first win, hiring a six-year broker with a long CRE lineage as an understudy for the retail market. The net-lease brokerage firm's next move will be to add an office and industrial broker before first quarter 2009 ends.

November/December 2008
Triple-Net Stays on Track
While not performing at the torrid pace of the last few years, the net-lease market continues to hold its own in this down phase of the commercial real estate investment cycle.

October, 2008
Net Lease Review: A Bright Spot in a Gloomy Market
Sale Leaseback transactions may be one of the more promising corners of an otherwise cooling US commercial investment sales market. That's because such vehicles are seen as compelling fund-raising options for corporations at a time when capital is harder to obtain.

October 16, 2008
CRE Ponders $250B Liquidity Dump Implications
Almost lost in the furor of Tuesday’s news that the government is injecting $250 billion into the banking system was the announcement on Wednesday that Bank of New York Mellon will serve as custodian for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, serving as bid manager and conducting reverse auctions for the troubled assets.

October 1, 2008
Hot Potato
Where do we go from here? That was the question on many people's minds during the tumultuous two-week period in mid-September that took the credit crisis to a harrowing new level. In quick succession, the federal takeovers of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, investment banking giant Lehman Brothers's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch & Co.'s sale to Bank of America for $50 billion and the $85 billion nationalization of insurance provider AIG made it abundantly clear that the credit crisis is here for the long haul. As of press time, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen had concocted a $700 billion bailout plan enabling the government to buy toxic assets from troubled banks and hopefully finally stabilize the system.

September 22, 2008
Retail Real Estate Reacts to Financial Market Crisis
This present turmoil on Wall Street will doubtless have its affect on commercial real estate as well as residential. But the extent to which the dissolution of Lehman Bros. and the government bailouts of crisis-ridden financial firms will hurt retail real estate is anyone’s guess. One thing is certain: As with the rest of the economy, the effects on this industry will be broad and range far, analysts say.

September 15, 2008
Capital Connections
Credit crunch generates partnerships between net lease operators and investors

September 1, 2008
Triple Net Properties See Tough Market
Shopping Center Business recently interviewed Harold Briggs, executive managing director of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Stan Johnson Company, to see how the market for triple-net properties is faring in the current economy.

September 1, 2008
Sale-Leaseback Quandary
Struggling to find capital as the credit markets tighten and the U.S. economy slows, corporations are increasingly exploring sale-leaseback deals to finance growth, repay debt and fund operations. But falling commercial real estate prices and growing worries about the creditworthiness of many corporations have curbed deal volume.

July 1, 2008
Do I Hear a Bid?
Auction houses that have been preoccupied with foreclosed subdivisions now report a looming cascade of auctions featuring troubled warehouses, office buildings and hotels ready to come to market in the second half of 2008.
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