MOSLER AND ZIFF ON TOUR

No, these are not the final two in American Idol. Yesterday, we hosted our first annual Washington Real Estate Summit at the Mayflower (with 725 attending), and Cushman & Wakefield chairman and CEO Bruce Mosler and Ackman-Ziff president Simon Ziff traveled down to keynote a star-studded lineup. Compared to ’07, when Simon said you could finance anything if “your felony wasn’t in the last three months,” the current climate has obviously been frozen, but a “CMBS 2.0” may be poking its head out. Bruce said office demand in Manhattan has doubled from the trough a year ago when it was just 900k SF a month and is now back up to 1.9M (the eight year average), being driven by companies trying to lock in good prices. More coverage: Part 1; Part 2

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