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REIT Investments

San Francisco Leads Detroit In CMBS Delinquencies for Apartment Properties

October 13, 2009

San Francisco, once considered one of the strongest commercial real estate markets in the country, had one of the largest increases in overall CMBS default rates in the second quarter of 2009, up 444 basis points to 5.15% (and yes, this was even worse than Miami). Detroit was still the worst performing market, with an [...]

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Notices of Default in the North Bay (Healdsburg Housing Bubble, 10/14/09)

Commercial Real Estate: Now Is the Perfect Time to Invest (Investment U, 12/30/09)

Is the US Reaching a Strategic Default Tipping Point? (naked capitalism, 2/3/10)

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Analysts See Apartment REITs Posting Strongest Effective Rent Gains In History

April 20, 2009

According to RREEF Research (the research unit of Deutsche Bank’s alternative investment management business), the US apartment market faces “one of the most challenging and complex environments in modern history”, but also remarkably strong recovery prospects. RREEF sees a recovery in multi-family real estate starting sometime in 2011, and suggests that the recovery in [...]

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Why You Should Avoid Apartment REITs (Contrarian Profits, 2/12/09)

Trouble for the Consumer Price Index? (The Mess That Greenspan Made, 5/7/09)

Renter's Rights When Landlord Is In Default (InvestorCentric, 3/9/09)

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