BAILOUT FATIGUE?: DEVELOPERS SEEK FEDERAL ASSISTANCE

Will the bleeding stop? Now, the developers go in...

Fearing an onslaught of troubled commercial real estate loans in 2009 in the absence of normalized credit markets, leaders from trade associations across the industry have banded together to request federal assistance. But is there enough political will at the U.S. Treasury to rescue once high-flying lenders and developers on the heels of bailouts of the banking and auto industries? [...more...]