Currently, Japanese investors are minor players in real estate outside Asia, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.
So, at any rate, says a new study from Jones Lang LaSalle, a global estate agency.
Vincent Lottefier, country head of Jones Lang LaSalle, says the firm has done better than he expected.
The Jakarta office of property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle reports that retail leasing is now a landlord's market.
So says Anthony Couse, a managing director in Shanghai for global real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle of Chicago.
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Today, says Jones Lang LaSalle, a property and hotel consultancy, hotels are the lowest-yielding property investment in the region.
In the fall, the failed investment bank tapped the New York-based investment sales team at Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.
But according to international real-estate agency Jones Lang LaSalle, less of Pudong's grade-A office space is empty than Manhattan's 9.5% versus 10.3%.
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Research by property advisory firm Jones Lang LaSalle names London's as the most traded real estate market in the world since 2008.
And 2012 is likely to be even stronger, Jones Lang LaSalle said.
Moscow now has 281 square meters of mall space per 1, 000 inhabitants, or roughly three square feet per capita, Jones Lang LaSalle says.
"Political and economic stability mixed with a heavy IT infrastructure, " says Shannon Robertson, Buenos Aires-based director of Jones Lang LaSalle's Latin American operations.
In the 1980s Britain ranked fourth as a destination for expansionist European retailers, according to a survey by Jones Lang LaSalle, a property consultancy.
"These are opportunities that are rare to come by even in strong cycles, " says Romy Bhojwani, senior vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels.
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It looks like Bloomberg will take the top 15 or so floors of the new building, which is owned by Jones Lang LaSalle.
But Argentina also has a young, well-educated labor force including some 30, 000 bilingual speakers, more than other Latin American countries, notes Jones Lang LaSalle.
Original bricks are a must, according to Hugh Scott and Travis James who help run the technology practice at real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Jones Lang LaSalle ( JLL - news - people ) say commercial real estate values are down 43% from their 2006 peak.
An index compiled by Jones Lang LaSalle of Irish property values was at 5, 651 at the end of 2012, down from 5, 702 in December 2009.
The attacks destroyed over 12% of the entire downtown office market, according to Jones Lang LaSalle, a property consultancy, and nearly crippled the area's economy.
Ms Moritz at Jones Lang LaSalle is already counting more offices leaving suburbs entirely and moving back into downtowns, which tend to be younger and hipper.
The vacancy rate in Midtown stood at 11.7% at the end of the year, up from 11.5% a year earlier, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.
"Transactions have bottomed out but I don't think that means prices will go back up, " said Michael Klibaner, head of research for China at Jones Lang LaSalle.
The company that manages the building, Jones Lang LaSalle, said they regularly monitor the weather and adopt appropriate precautions to ensure the safety of anyone visiting or working in the building.
In the future, electronics shops in shopping malls will give way to retailers that are focused on dining and fun, according to a new report out today by Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Liberty Property, Jones Lang LaSalle, Trammel Crow and other large real estate firms have signed up, giving Urban Media access to 900 million square feet of office space and 4.5 million workers.
Liberty Property, Jones Lang LaSalle, Trammel Crow and other large real estate firms have signed up, giving Urban Media access to over 80 million square meters of office space and 4.5 million workers.
"These are opportunities that are rare to come by even in strong cycles, " says Romy Bhojwani, senior vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle (nyse: JLL - news - people ) Hotels.
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Despite the large numbers of rooms opening in coming years, "there is no worry this will lead to an oversupply, " says Chiheb Ben Mahmoud, executive vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels EMEA in Dubai.
But despite the debt crisis, economic contraction in many European Union countries and instability in the European banking system, experts at Jones Lang LaSalle say confidence in the hotel real-estate sector has risen since October 2011.
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