The value of the real estate market is about 30 times larger than that of publicly traded real estate on the stock exchange.
These days there is no shortage of state and local municipalities struggling under the weight of budget shortfalls that were aggravated by the collapse of the real estate market and ensuing recession.
Fearing a bubble, government officials have taken a myriad of steps to reign in the breakneck growth of the real estate market.
Similar to many developers moving ahead with new condo projects recently, Mr. Eichner is targeting the upper end of the market, real-estate executives said.
In a more recent Forbes.com article , Manhattan Real Estate Has Become The Gold Standard, I examined the growth of the Manhattan commercial real estate market.
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Shortly after the collapse of the real estate market and the ensuing truncated deflationary-depression, Bernanke took interest rates to near zero percent.
With the collapse of the Japanese stock market and real estate and then the banking system in the 1990s, the Japanese model quickly lost its appeal.
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This time real estate is staying depressed for one reason, the U.S. Government and the big banks decided that the big banks should be saved at the expense of the real estate market.
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The dynamics of the real estate market are changing, though, and several homebuilders, home improvement retailers, and construction materials companies have regained much of the value that evaporated since housing prices peaked in 2007.
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"If today is the bottom of the real estate market and tomorrow it all turns around, perhaps we could be back in the building business, just like we were, in maybe a year and a half, " Duke says.
It's just a tiny bright shard in the vast wreckage of the real estate market.
Employment in the U.S. is a lynch pin for the improvement of the overall economy, affecting areas such as consumer spending, the real estate market and the growth of business and U.S. exports.
Say what you will about the benefits of clean energy or the costs of pollution, the jury has returned an unambiguous verdict on the greening of the commercial real-estate market.
Mr. Shvo said he decided to scale back even earlier, at the end of 2007, when he realized the market "couldn't sustain" the excess of if real-estate investment.
She has also been encouraging the development of the German real estate market, which suffered from a construction overhang post-reunification but is now seeing interest from hedge funds.
Nearly all global banks are suffering from the aftermath of the collapse of the real estate market, but financial institutions in Europe are simultaneously battling a serious sovereign debt crisis.
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The campaign was aimed primarily at the high end of the real-estate market by making it much more difficult to speculate in real estate by buying multiple apartments.
The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Property Index (NPI) is the accepted index created to provide an instrument to gauge the investment performance of the commercial real estate market.
The continued recovery of the residential real estate market is needed for the U.S. economy to build upon its current recovery efforts due to its implication on personal household balance sheets and overall consumer sentiment.
The 2.4-acre estate sits on Aspatuck Creek waterfront in the Quogue real estate market of eastern Long Island and comes with a 3, 654-square-foot home with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 fireplaces and a Gunite pool and spa.
Its aim is to keep more people in their homes, another way of tackling the troubling level of unsold homes that keeps the real estate market depressed.
The trend reflects the strength of the luxury real-estate market.
Paying attention to the vagaries of the local real-estate market, where inventory and prices can fluctuate week to week, will offer more guidance to sellers than simple seasonal trends.
With property prices starting to soar, the government last month stepped up its controls of the real estate market, vowing to levy a 20 per cent capital gains tax to thwart speculators.
Supply-side driven entrepreneurship misguides animal spirits, wasting resources and talent, fueling asset bubbles that end up in financial crisis like the US recently experienced, the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and the Japanese real estate market collapse of the 1990s.
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This green-induced convergence is also shaking up the competitive dynamics of the commercial real-estate market, creating opportunities for small companies to become big companies and big companies to become still bigger.
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And sure enough, the greed got seriously out of hand and then imploded, in fact twice, once with the bursting of the stock market bubble of 2000, and then even more seriously with the real estate and sub-prime mortgage bubble and resulting financial meltdown of 2008-2009.
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Weary of the wobbly stock market and alarmed by the real estate runup, they were lured by eye-popping returns of 50% a year (or better) at a few elite funds.
Buckingham's sanguine outlook notwithstanding, most advisers see the home builders' sharp drops in the past three months as dark omens from the market that cast significant doubt on the ability of the real estate boom to continue.
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