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The apartment-building sector, the only type of commercial real estate funded through federally backed programs, may be able to withstand any hiccups in the economic recovery, analysts said.

Freddie to Step Up Multifamily Loans Al Yoon 2011

In addition to funding availability, rising rents and a lack of supply in many regions are acting as tail winds for apartment-building values.

Freddie to Step Up Multifamily Loans Al Yoon 2011

The last peak in apartment-building foreclosure filings was in 1994, when 666 were logged.

More Landlords Not Paying Up Joseph De Avila 2011

Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage-finance giant, will likely fund more than $16 billion in apartment-building loans this year, up from $14.8 billion in 2010, said David Brickman , head of multifamily funding for the McLean, Va., company.

Freddie to Step Up Multifamily Loans Al Yoon 2011

Its sprawling portfolio ranged from vast tracts of undeveloped California land, to office buildings, to one of the country's largest apartment-building companies.

Lehman Cranks Up Sales as Prices Rise Eliot Brown 2011

The battle for Archstone intensified Monday as the estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. challenged a deal cut by Sam Zell 's Equity Residential to buy a large stake of the rival apartment-building owner.

Lehman Criticizes Zell's Archstone Bid Robbie Whelan 2011

Sam Zell Last year, Equity Residential , the national apartment-building landlord of which Mr. Zell is chairman, purchased three Manhattan apartment buildings for $475 million.

Zell Circles Chicago Office Building Maura Webber Sadovi 2011

Mr. Walsh helped take apartment-building owner Archstone-Smith Trust private in 2007 in a heavily leveraged buyout that left Lehman's balance sheet with $5.4 billion in hard-to-sell exposure, according to a report last year by the bankruptcy examiner hired to investigate the company's demise.

Dubai Fund Transfers U.S. Property Craig Karmin 2011

That would likely depress the share price of Associated and other apartment-building owners.

Associated Estates Has an Appetite for Apartments Dawn Wotapka 2011

Ranieri Real Estate Partners LP and private-equity funds affiliated with WL Ross & Co. are paying an undisclosed amount for the unit of Deutsche Bank AG, which makes loans to apartment-building owners and then sells them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Ranieri, Ross Buy Deutsche Bank Unit Eliot Brown 2011