My firm arranged $36 billion in financing last last year spread over almost 4,000 transactions with 210 different lenders.

The other side of this is that Manhattan just landed a 4.5 billion research facility that will significantly stimulate the economy.

I wish I had a multi-million (billion?)

Likewise, having a personal guarantee will make tenants think twice before skipping out and abandoning a premises, but they're only good if the holder is willing to pursue legal means of recourse to enforce the guarantee.I was very fortunate to have worked with a client when I was very young in my CRE career who built a multi billion dollar company (and net worth) as he was building his company.

Since going into conservatorship in 2008, FNMA and Freddie have returned to the government approximately $247 billion, which is $60 billion more than the $187 billion spent on the bailout.FNMA loans are obtained through Delegated Underwriting& Servicing (DUS) lenders who are authorized to underwrite, process, close, and service loans for FNMA.

Take a look at what Kushner is doing in Journal Square, that's a $1 billion investment.

Now you are going to need some money to put down, not a billion in the bank but something.

As an investor looking at University City, make sure you put a lot of research into the upcoming multi-billion-dollar project happening near Drexel.I'm not extremely familiar with all the details but know that it involves the construction of hundreds of apartment units and public space between the city of Philly and the University.

I want to send a huge thank you to everyone here who is contributing as I already have eleventy billion windows open on my desktop, after reading possibly twice that and listening to more property podcasts than I've listened to in 24hrs in my life.

Reading this thread about the too big to fail banks and the $700 billion TARP ....