Prominent Real Estate Academic and Industry Leader Available for Press Interviews and Market Commentary

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. and TYSONS CORNER, Va., Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Stephen Cumbie, executive director of the Center for Real Estate Development and professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, is available for press interviews and commentary on relevant and timely issues concerning the commercial and residential real estate markets.

In addition to his academic duties, Mr. Cumbie serves as CEO of NVCommercial, a leading commercial real estate investment and development firm located in the Washington, DC area.  

Mr. Cumbie is highly conversant, articulate, and well informed on present real estate market trends and movements.  For example, the following are current topics that he could address:

• A slowly increasing flow of distressed commercial real estate loans and properties coming to market portends a change in attitude by regulators and lenders away from "extend and pretend" to forcing the issue with borrowers.
• Opportunities for investing in distressed debt and properties and how these deals will be structured in this current market.
• What the residential and commercial RE landscape will look like during the next three years.

Mr. Cumbie can be reached at: 703/448-4304 or [email protected] .    

For more information on Mr. Cumbie visit: http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/Faculty/search/detail.cfm?person_id=924

For more information on the UNC Kenan-Flagler Center for Real Estate Development visit:  http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/KI/realEstate/index.cfm

SOURCE Stephen Cumbie