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CoStar CRE Pricing Indices Continue Upward Trend In January

March 15, 2012

Costar… CoStar’s monthly National Composite Index of commercial real estate prices opened 2012 with a 1.5% increase as the ongoing recovery reaped the benefits of improving investor confidence and steady pricing growth. With the gain in January, the National Composite Index is now 1.9% above the same period last year and has posted gains in eight of the last nine months since April 2011, with an average monthly increase of 0.8% — consistent with steady… Continue reading here: CoStar CRE Pricing Indices Continue Upward Trend In January Find our Weekly Commercial Real Estate, Private Equity and Fund Newsletters at www.WeeklyBrief.net

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Businesses Take Up More Space

January 6, 2012

The U.S. office market showed modest signs of improvement in the last three months of 2011, as the national office-vacancy rate fell slightly from the previous period.

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Commercial Real Estate Slowly Turning Around « Washington Bank …

June 5, 2011

Sales and leasing volumes in commercial real estate have turned a corner and are heading up, but because the past few years have been so difficult, the upturn barely feels like one. … That's a bit surprising, because the big-four national banks — Wells Fargo, Citibank, Chase, and Bank of America — are in a far better position to make loans. Not only are they sitting on piles of money, but because they've grown to the point where they're too big to fail, …

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Want to Buy a Piece of a Greek Island?

May 31, 2011

As part of Greece’s privatization plan to raise cash to reduce its mountain of debt, the national government is preparing to sell as much as $42.9 billion of public property.

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Home Sales Probably Waned After Credit U.S. Economy Preview

February 16, 2011

By Shobhana Chandra June 20 (Bloomberg) — The housing market began to retrench in May after a government incentive ended, leaving manufacturing at the head of the U.S.

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