The Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2015
L.A.'s Red-Hot West Side Story
By Matt Hudgins
Record apartment sale on L.A.'s west side shows some investors believe rents have further to climb.
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The Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2015
Independent Will Tower in Texas
By Matt Hudgins
The Independent in downtown Austin will be the highest residential tower west of the Mississippi.
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The Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2015
Property Boom has Denver Building New Rocky Mountain High
By Matt Hudgins
Hines breaks ground on 40-story office tower.
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Shopping Centers Today feature, September 2014
Canada's Outlet Center Boom (on page 50)
By Matt Hudgins
Canada is seeing a flurry of outlet center development, with half a dozen under construction.
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 The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 12, 2014
Medical Office Sector Leans on the 'Master' Lease
By Matt Hudgins
In a surprising side-effect of Obama-care, the spread of master leases is making medical office buildings a hot commodity among investors.
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 The New York Times, May 29, 2013
Baseball Stadium Bolsters El Paso’s Resurgence
By Matt Hudgins
Urban renewal gains momentum in Far West Texas.
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  The Society Diaries, January 2014
Boot Ranch: Lone Star Style Combined With Five Star Service
By Matt Hudgins
Boot Ranch combines elegant ranch living, world-class golf and outdoor adventure.
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 Commercial Investment Real Estate, Cover story, March/April 2013
Dealing with Distress
By Matt Hudgins
CCIMs turn liabilities into profitable investments.
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Shopping Centers Today, feature, March 2013
Grocery-Anchored Centers Increasingly Grocery Owned, Too
By Matt Hudgins
Grocers lower store occupancy costs by purchasing rather than leasing.
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 The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2013
New Hubs Arise to Serve a 'Just in Case' Distribution
By Matt Hudgins
Distributors reconfigure to overcome inherent weakness of just-in-time model.
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 The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2012
Houston Is Booming, Pushed by, Surprise, Its Energy Industry
By Matt Hudgins
Even first time visitors here can tell that the city is growing rapidly.
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The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2012
Tourism Up, Hotel Investors Flock to Miami Beach
By Matt Hudgins
Hotel investors seek to capture part of the market’s resurgent tourism industry.
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Real Estate Forum feature, September 2012
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Office and Industrial. By Matt Hudgins
An anemic office market and burgeoning industrial sector form a stark constrast as the economy stalls out.
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Real Estate Forum feature, September 2012
Asset Managing the Recovery. By Matt Hudgins
Creative asset managers find they can still coax healthy cash flows from properties in a slow-growth economy.
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The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2012
Lehman is Biding Its Time to Market Its Real Estate
By Matt Hudgins
Four years after bankruptcy, Lehman has $10 billion of real estate to sell
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 Commercial Investment Real Estate, Cover story, Sept/Oct 2012
Industrial Stacks Up: Secondary and tertiary markets benefit from key demand drivers.
By Matt Hudgins
A look at what's driving demand for industrial space in markets across the nation.
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 The New York Times, Aug. 14, 2012
In Texas’s Capital, Construction on Many Corners
By Matt Hudgins
Downtown Austin's residential growth is fueling office, hotel and retail development.
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 The New York Times, June 19, 2012
Splitting Up Ownership to Ride Out a Rough Spot
By Matt Hudgins
Article reveals the wave of partial-interest investments in New York office towers, looks into driving factors, and explains the implications for buyers and for city tax revenues.
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 Real Estate Forum feature, June 2012
Value-Add Has Its Day. By Matt Hudgins
Most investors are shunning risk, but a bold few are using leasing, marketing and renovation strategies to transform their properties into more valuable assets.
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Shopping Centers Today feature, March 2012
How will America's most distressed retail property markets — Chicago, Las Vegas & Phoenix — make it out of the hole?
By Matt Hudgins
The Roosevelt Collection lifestyle center, in the heart of Chicago’s thriving South Loop District, is a case study in the opportunities that distress has created in retail real estate.
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 The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2011
When Apartment Rents Climb, Landlords Can Say ‘The Computer Did It’
By Matt Hudgins
Article explores the growing adoption of revenue management among owners of small multifamily portfolios.
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National Real Estate Investor, Cover story, October 2011
Barbarians or White Knights: What to Make of Private Equity's Love of Real Estate
By Matt Hudgins
This cover story takes a look at the latest mega deals, the major private equity players and how the market views their exploits.
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  Commercial Investment Real Estate, Cover story, July/August 2011
Dirt, Cheap: Opportunistic investors place their bets on land.
By Matt Hudgins
After inteviewing land brokers throughout the U.S. and Canada, Hudgins identifies the strategies that still turn a profit in this hard-hit sector.
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