Subject: Economic News (ECO)

This year's policy slate will shift from the Dodd-Frank policymaking cycle to some major headline issues, including the Libor transition, reform of the government-sponsored enterprises and relief for lenders complying with the anti-money laundering Beneficial Ownership requirements.

The buzz that the United States Senate might shift gears and support a sharp increase in the tax on partnerships' carried interests has prompted the real estate industry to mobilize.Jeffrey DeBoer, president and chief executive of the Real Estate Roundtable, ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportAttendance at next week's Commercial Mortgage Securities Association conference in Washington, D.C., is slated to be up by 52 percent from the trade group's last get-together.So far, 960 individuals have registered to attend the conference, ...

Commercial property values in the United States fell 17percent over the first half of 2009, according to an index managed by InternationalProperty Databank.The decline compares to a 12.2 percent drop for all 2008registered by the index, said the company also ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportGoldman Sachs, which in the first quarter had marked its commercial real estate holdings down by $640 million, recognized another $700 million in fair-value losses associated with its commercial mortgage portfolio.Nonetheless, the investment bank's fixed ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportJames L. Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s chairman and chief executive, has warned the banking industry to brace for "rapidly rising" losses related to commercial real estate. Commercial real estate losses "are going up, and ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportGoldman Sachs wrote down its exposure to commercial real estate by another $640 million during the quarter. The investment bank, which reported $1.8 billion of net earnings during the first quarter on $9.4 billion of ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Fitch Ratings has awarded a CMBS special servicing rating of CSS3 to Helios AMC, a San Francisco asset-management company formed by workout veterans Eric Lindner, John Maute and Michele Heisler. Helios AMC is capitalized ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report During the early 1990s, when the commercial real estate market was in a state of depression, financier Sam Zell came up with the mantra, "Stay alive till '95." His words ended up being prescient. ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Arbor Realty Trust, which is angling to buy CBRE Realty Finance, has asked the Hartford, Conn., mortgage REIT to provide information on what it expects will be future write-downs of potentially troubled loans. Arbor, ...