NAHB Reports Number of Improving U.S. Housing Markets Nearly Doubles in October

David Crowe According to the National Association of Home Builders/ First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) for October, 23 individual housing markets now qualifying as “improving” under the new gauge’s parameters. This is nearly double the 12 housing markets th
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Quarterly Retail Update: Investors Respond To Improving Conditions for Shopping Center Owners, Tenants

Retail property sales volume bounced back from the doldrums in the first half of 2011, with $ 19.4 billion in assets trading in the second quarter alone — three times the volume of 2009, CoStar economists said. While overall investment sales volume has returned to 2007 levels, a
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