Investors in real estate investment trusts should consider shifting some of their bets out of the suburbs.
However, the fund warned that a "disorderly decline in real estate investment could have significant implications for growth in China".
As an average investor, one way you can follow the money and invest in the lifestyle of the rich and famous is to own shares in real estate investment trusts (REITs).
Maybe you own the properties directly, or maybe you hold shares in a Real Estate Investment Trust.
One has to do with personal or family investment - that is higher education is thought to be a personal or family investment and not all that dissimilar from an investment in the stock market or an investment in real estate.
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Several members expressed interest in real estate, either real estate investment trusts (REITs) or home building stocks.
"We are now seeing a resurgence of Japanese interest in direct real-estate investment, " says Matthew Richards, head of Jones Lang's international capital group in Europe.
Investors still looking for long-term protection against the risks of high inflation in the future might find better value in real estate, such as in investment properties, and in commodities, both of which look cheap compared with their long-term averages.
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These discounts have attracted some of the big fish in the real-estate investment world.
The steep drop in export revenue that began with the US financial collapse in 2008 has led to a massive over-investment in real estate.
The Dubai state investment agency planned to sell some properties in London and New York and redeploy some capital to real estate in Asia, its chief investment officer, Yu Lai Boon, said this month.
Vocal on his optimism for housing recently, Paulson seems most interested in houses specifically, and increased the weight of his investment in real estate stocks to 4.5%, his largest exposure in over four years, from 0.5% in the third quarter of 2012.
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That's why the slowdown in China's real-estate investment should be ringing alarm bells through the corridors of the RBA in Martin Place, Sydney.
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In the 1990s, real estate investment trusts have generally kept debt low, 50% on average.
Then in 1996 a German real estate investment firm called Fundus Group bought it and began restoration.
Amongst those are becoming a broadcaster or engaging in investment real estate.
Mr. Zuckerman, 75 years old, has been chairman of Boston Properties since the company went public in 1997 as a real estate investment trust.
These publicly traded private equity firms invest in and lend to small and midsize businesses and then pay out almost all their earnings as dividends to shareholders in much the way real estate investment trusts do.
It may be imprudent for someone working in the real estate industry to make a significant investment in the asset class, because the factors impacting investment returns would be the same ones impacting potential raises, bonuses, and perhaps overall job security.
Headquartered in Spokane, Washington, Potlatch is a Real Estate Investment Trust that is engaged in the ownership and management of timberland in Arkansas, Idaho and Minnesota.
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Headquartered in Glendale, California, Public Storage is a real estate investment trust that was founded in 1971.
Firpta had led a number of investors to change their strategies to investing in real-estate debt in the U.S. rather than equity, said Ben Sanderson of Hermes Real Estate Investment Management Ltd.
The slowdown is partly due to less investment in real estate and other property-related businesses.
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In Friday trading, Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust shares are currently up about 0.2% on the day.
The implied return on investment in real estate is tied to an expectation of ever-rising prices, not to income from property.
Miami is ranked a distant 8th for foreign investment in real estate.
Its growth rate, as we calculate it in our annual survey of real estate investment trusts, is five times that of the average REIT.
Bustling office towers, lively shopping malls, thronged hotels: All have done well in recent years for the real estate investment trusts that own them.
Using some of his mother's retirement money, Mr. Okutomi had earlier bought several mutual funds that invest mainly in overseas equities and real-estate investment trusts.
Her real estate investment in Huaxian, Guangzhou, was considered risky at the time, but subsequent government plans to develop the area turned it into a gold mine.
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