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

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

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. and TYSONS CORNER, Va., Oct. 8 /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. NVCommercial has projects exceeding $500 million
completed or in process in Washington and Denver, Co.

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:
-- What will the residential and commercial RE landscape look like during
the next three years?
-- How will the coming wave of maturity defaults affect the commercial
real
estate industry?
-- How will commercial banks and CMBS servicers deal with the impending
avalanche of bad loan workouts, and who will fill the space left by
the
exit of Wall Street investment banks?

-- How will the opportunities for investing in distressed properties
develop and be structured?

Mr. Cumbie can be reached at: 703/448-4304 or Stephen_Cumbie@unc.edu .

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 UNC Kenan-Flagler Center for Real Estate Development

Robert Engle for the UNC Kenan-Flagler Center for Real Estate Development,
+1-703-356-8230