Where is the Commercial Real Estate Crash?

FORTUNE – Investors have spent years dodging disaster in one area of the markets, only to find their investments coming to a bad end elsewhere. However, there is one sector that has been outrunning the grim reaper since 2007, and it’s the last place you’d expect to have survived so long: commercial real estate. For much of 2008 and 2009 CRE was awash in red ink, and yet it hangs... [Read more]

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Reits Providing Healthy Returns

As reported by CNNMoney.com One may be surprised to see that shares of real estate investment trusts, or REITs, are on fire this year. The iShares Dow Jones Real Estate (IYR) exchange-traded fund, which owns about 75 real estate stocks, is up 9% so far in 2010. There are various types of REITs focusing on different types of properties. And REITs across the board are having a good year. Hotel owner... [Read more]

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Upbeat Fed as Rates Stay Still

The Federal Reserve has held interest rates near zero while also highlighting increased momentum in the US economy’s recovery, during its latest meeting on monetary policy. The Fed’s nod to a firmer rebound from the deepest recession in decades hints that it is moving closer to dropping its promise to hold borrowing costs at rock bottom levels, suggesting rate hikes could come within... [Read more]

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Positive News

There seems to be many early buds in the recovery of the Real Estate market. Here we have identified two reports from the Real Deal as an example. The first talks about the mortgage industry and the other of the lumber industry. Neither on their own are strong enough to signal that a Spring thaw is imminent but in combination do offer some positive early indicators. Lets hope that they keep on coming... [Read more]

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