"Commercial real estate lending is a much larger group of banks, " says Pamela Martin of the Risk Management Association, noting that it takes up as much as 25% of the balance sheets of many local and regional banks.
CoStar Group ( CSGP), a provider of information and marketing services to commercial real estate professionals in the United States as well as the United Kingdom, has seen consensus estimates fall meaningfully lower for both 2013 and 2014 following a rare earnings miss on February 27.
His real estate holding company, Kirsh Holdings Group, owns extensive and extremely valuable residential and commercial properties in London, Australia and South Africa.