REFIRE, one of the premier real estate finance intelligence resources in Europe, recently set up a new partnership with the Atlanta-based INTRESINC to form REFIRE-AMERICAS.  The new platform will provide products and services for corporations, service firms, investors, owner-operators, and traditional and web-based communities in North America.

REFIRE-AMERICAS publishes and broadcasts articles, interviews, commentary, and blogs of significant interest to professionals and business looking to monitor new initiatives and trends, and stay ahead of the market.  Get in touch with Barbara Spohn or Ian Cameron at www.refire-americas.com

Coming in 2010, REFIRE will be adding audio and visual content to our blog and website (www.refire-online.com), contributing our own original content and appropriate material from our local and international partner throughout Europe and the US.

Do feel free to send us video or audio clips that you feel might be relevant for our audience of institutional real estate investors, particularly those active in the German market.  We’ll also be happy to make our own content available to like-minded partners for adaptation or inclusion in lengthier programmes.

Our introduction about REFIRE

As we grind our way to the end of a tough year, a new tremor of uncertainty can be detected rippling through the commercial real estate industry. Not, we hasten to add, from the broker community, disturbing numbers of whom are buying readily into the notion of an imminent return to ‘normality’.

Perhaps it’s understandable – transactions, after all, are the life blood of the brokerage and advisory industry. But an up-tick in trading volumes in the third and fourth quarters of this year is no basis for assuming that property prices have reached a new equilibrium, and it’s upwards from here.  We are uncomfortable, too, with the now widely accepted notion that, since the wave of distressed selling in Germany has been conspicuous by its absence, it no longer poses an immediate threat. Continue Reading