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Corporate end users of OTC derivatives most commonly trade the financial instruments to manage their balance sheet liabilities and cash flows, in addition to hedging interest rate and exchange rate risks. Interest rate derivatives comprise approximately 80% of all OTC derivative transactions, with FX derivatives billed as the second largest category.  read entire article…  Author:  Daniel Flatt, Source:  The Corporate Treasurer

Commercial real estate’s slow recovery will continue in 2013, according to the Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2013 report released today by PwC and the Urban Land Institute at the ULI Fall Conference taking place in Denver.  The report, generated by surveys and interviews with 900 real estate investors, developers, service providers and lenders, shows expectations that trends that have materialized in recent years will continue in 2013.  read entire article….  Author:  David Bodamer, Source:  National Real Estate Investor

After sales plummeted earlier this year, investors are once more slowly warming up to grocery-anchored shopping centers. Two major portfolio of properties changed hands this past week.

Sales totals of neighborhood / community shopping centers topped $1.2 billion in every quarter of 2011, and surpassed $2 billion in each the third and fourth quarter of that year. Then sales of this type retail center plummeted to $600 million in the first quarter.  read entire article…  Author:  Mark Heschmeyer,  Source:  CoStar Group

While a majority of America is keenly aware of the housing bubble, and at least somewhat familiar with the unraveling of the European Markets, little energy is being focused on what may very well be the nation’s next looming fiscal crisis:  the large volume of commercial real estate debt maturing over the next seven years.  read entire article…  Author:  Nicholas Coburn, Source:  National Real Estate Investor.

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Florida community banks and credit unions said regulatory compliance was their biggest obstacle, event greater than economic problems, according to a survey by the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida CFO Jeff Atwater.  Author:  Brian Bandell, Source:  Orlando Business Journal.  read entire article….

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Title VII of the Dodd Frank Act, much of which will take effect next month, requires over-the-counter derivatives to trade through central counter-parties.  Author:  Aron Gottesman, Source:  American Banker. read entire article…

A multimillion-dollar conversion into a retail center is restoring the Lincoln Theatre’s dramatic Art Deco design and commercial shine.  Author:  Andres Viglucci, Source:  The Miami Herald. read entire article…

September proved to be a busy month for the single tenant net lease sector.  Within a 24-hour period on September 6, Realty Income Corp., an Escondido, CA based REIT specializing in net lease properties, bought American Realty Capital Trust, which owns 501 mostly net lease buildings, for approximately $2.95B, then Lexington Realty Trust, a New York City based REIT, announced it was acquiring a portfolio of net lease office and industrial properties from its joint venture with Inland American for $480M.  Author:  Elaine Misonzhnik, Source:  National Real Estate Investor

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