Brad Case, in Real Estate Portfolio, presents a rather optimistic and insightful piece about a possible sliver of opportunity that may just right before us: Property Paradox: Falling Property Values May Signal Bull Market for REITs. Maybe the glass is really half full …Lets see.   

Business reports are full of bad news on commercial property […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Washington Post reported that the current credit crunch may have a bright side: That of creating opportunities for buyers who don’t need to borrow cash to buy commercial property but were unable to buy when a burgeoning real estate market drove up prices through using low cost loans to buy and flip properties for […]