Pricing Recovery Broadens Across CRE Property Spectrum

Commercial real estate pricing continued to recover through May 2012 at a fairly surprising pace across the board given the disappointing level of U.S. job growth and other economic factors, with gains expanding from the best institutional-grade buildings to smaller and more general q
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Pace of Recovery Accelerates For Lower-End CRE Properties

CRE investors are stepping up their efforts to find value outside the best buildings in the top U.S. metros, casting their nets in a growing number of secondary markets and asset types as price growth slows for the highest-end properties, according to this month’s CoStar Commerc
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Hotel Values Continue Robust Recovery

The hotel recovery continues for all the major U.S. hotel markets National Real Estate Investor
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ICSC-RECon Attendees Upbeat Despite Slow Pace of Retail Recovery

Improving market fundamentals and increase retail deal activity raised the energy level several notches at this year’s RECon convention, the annual deal-making confab sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) in Las Vegas each spring. More than 32,000 att
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U.S. Housing Market Has Begun Nascent Recovery, Says Freddie Mac Report

Frank Nothaft According to Freddie Mac’s U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for March, there are signs the U.S. housing market is awakening from its depression-like condition of the past few years and beginning, though slowly, to make a nascent recovery. Frank Nothaft, Fre
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Apartment Industry Enjoys Strong Recovery in U.S., Still Limited by Credit Constraints

During a press conference held last week at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) International Builders’ Show (IBS) in Orlando, Florida, panelists stated the apartment sector is a bright spot in the overall housing market leading the industry’s path to recovery
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CRE Pricing Recovery Continues With September Rebound

Commercial real estate prices resumed their steady if modest rise in September following a pause the previous month, helping lift the CoStar National Composite Index to a nearly 1% gain in pricing for the third quarter of 2011 over the previous three months. Two main factors, the ongo
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Glimmers of Recovery in New Seniors Construction Report

New data shows developers are beginning to add projects to the seniors housing pipeline. National Real Estate Investor
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Investors See Stability In Commercial Real Estate Despite Weak Recovery

Investors surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) continue to see commercial real estate as a relative bright spot in the gloomy investment landscape. At the same time, stubbornly high unemployment and economic volatility has clearly dampened their enthusiasm for the asset class sinc
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As Office Sector Enters New Stage of Recovery, Cities in the Heartland Become Good Acquisition Bets

Investment in office buildings in secondary markets is starting to pick up. National Real Estate Investor
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