According to the LA Times, the sliding commercial real estate market has an upside for investors: Buying shares in publicly traded real estate investment trusts.
REITs-which outperformed stocks over the past 10 years have lost some of their investment luster recently due to investor fears that market values of the properties underlying commercial REITs this year […]

Retail Traffic described Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P.’s third quarter conference call-during which execs from the CRE intermediary noted some strong fundamentals in the commercial sector-as an optimistic indicator for commercial real estate lending.
While the recent MIT TBI index showed a 2.5 percent drop in the value of commercial real estate debt in pension funds, there […]

The MIT TBI index reported that the value of U.S. commercial real estate owned by big pension funds fell 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2007. The index figures, which are produced by the MIT Center for Real Estate, measure only commercial property sales to pension funds.
Last quarter’s drop was the first in commercial […]