Distressed Assets

  • UDR Announces Joint Venture

    The recently announced deal between UDR and Kuwait Finance House (KFH) seems to indicate that the Highlands Ranch, Colo.-based company is adding more than $450 million in dry powder for acquisitions. It could also be tangible evidence that outside investors are starting to warm up to the...

     
  • Quick & Quirky: August 6, 2009

    MULTIFAMILY EXECUTIVE Senior Editor Chris Wood rounds up interesting and intriguing news tidbits. This week’s quirkification: rent-to-own, flea bomb fiascos, and the true meaning of solitude.

     
  • AIMCO’s Dispositions Heat Up

    AIMCO is continuing to sell. In last Friday’s conference call, the Denver-based REIT said it has $1.2 billion in dispositions either in negotiations or under contract to be sold and more than another billion in the market. AIMCO has sold $500 million in assets so far this year.

     
  • REIT Week: Second-Quarter Flurry Starts

    After Birmingham, Ala., Colonial Properties Trust opened things up last week, Alexandria, Va.-based AvalonBay Communities and Chicago-based Equity Residential issued releases last night that detailed their second-quarter losses.

     
  • Going, Going, Gone: Auctions Try to Move Multifamily Distress

    Multifamily brokers are using auctions to excite buyers, speed up sales, and establish pricing thresholds for distressed properties.

     
  • Arizona Foreclosures Highlight Industry-Wide Problems

    The recent struggles of two Irvine, Calif.-based apartment firms have shone the spotlight on exactly how bad things are on the West Coast, particularly in Arizona.

     
  • Multifamily Financial Distress Doubles

    Distress is piling up in the multifamily market, but it’s still not as bad the other sectors, according to the most recent Troubled Assets Radar from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) a New York-based research firm that tracks commercial real estate.

     
  • South Florida Braces for Hurricane Season That May Cause Deeper Distress

    If the unprecedented number of real estate foreclosures didn’t hurt South Florida, the upcoming hurricane season likely will. A large Category 4 or 5 storm could wreak more than structural havoc on empty buildings; some believe the financial damage and related insurance, repair, and demolition...

     
  • Mid-America Poised to Strike on Distressed Deals

    Mid-America Apartment Communities is gearing up to take advantage of a wave of distressed assets coming online.

     
  • Go West: CWCapital Buys Sierra Capital Partners

    CWCapital has acquired multifamily lender Sierra Capital Partners in a push to expand on the West Coast. The Irvine, Calif.-based Sierra Capital Partners originated about $300 million annually in Freddie Mac debt, with a servicing portfolio of about $825 million. Terms of the deal were not...