The winners of the 2010 Executive of the Year Awards are in the December issue of CPE, along with a look at how the congressional shift in balance will impact critical real estate concerns, and up-to-date, pertinent information for your business.

It is an oft-told story. Anticipating continued demand, a developer plans a premier project at the height of the condominium market, totally unaware of the impending housing market collapse, and then falls victim to the credit crunch and topples under the weight of financial challenges. Such was the case for Cabi Downtown L.L.C., the developer of Everglades on the Bay.

Cedar Shopping Centers Inc. has closed on 10-year fixed-rate mortgage financing for a six-property suite purchased in October. The primarily supermarket-anchored properties were bought on behalf of a joint venture between Cedar and RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, a Canadian firm.

In his new position, Bradley Carroll will create and implement business development strategies and source prospective investments, mostly in major U.S. markets. He comes to Madison from Tishman Speyer Properties, where he most recently served as managing director overseeing portfolio and asset management for three emerging market real estate funds.

The National Association of Realtors says that U.S. office vacancy rates will peak at 16.7 percent during the fourth quarter and start a gradual decline after that. The markets with the lowest office vacancy rates currently are New York City and Honolulu, with vacancies around 9 percent.

Following their ULI Fall Meeting 2010 panel, Brookings Institution senior fellows William Frey and Anthony Downs talk with CPE TV about major changes looming for the U.S. population and how the country’s failure to adequately address them threatens our ability to remain competitive as a country during the coming decades.

David Borchardt, chief sustainability officer with The Tower Cos. talks to Multi-Housing News about making money by building green.

Multi-Housing News interviews Jeffrey Perlman, LEED AP, president & founder of Bright Power Inc. and co-founder of EnergyScoreCards. He discusses his impressions of the 2010 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, as well as why benchmarking multifamily communities is so challenging–and how EnergyScoreCards can help.