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• Canadian REITs favoured over U.S. counterparts

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 577
  Canadian real estate investment trust have risen 40% in value since bottoming out in early 2009, but CIBC World Markets senior economist Benjamin Tal thinks there is more to come and favours them over their U.S. counterparts. “Against a backdrop of a virtual drought in commercial real estate financing south of the ...
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• Diversify "even more"

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 566
  Good article here arguing in favor of even more diversification for the average investor. It seems particularlyrelevant given the last couple of updates on this blog - the move by advisorsto put clients into more alternative investments, and the rising interest ingold and commodities. The linked article by ...
  2 days ago

• An Objective Look At Commercial Real Estate: The Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  CRE is possibly the single biggest experiment in "extend and pretend" currently evolving (aside from the US economy itself, which like a drug addict, is fed its daily methadone of fiat money by its enablers Bernanke and Geithner) in America. This is confirmed by the latest Korpacz Real Estate Q3 Investor Survey: far ...
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• General Growth Inks Pact to Restructure Mortgages on 70 Malls

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  General Growth has reached a deal with its lenders to restructure mortgages on 70 malls. It hopes to reach similar agreements on other properties based on this one. It announced the pact during a bankruptcy court hearing. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters have stories so far. From the WSJ: Attorneys ...
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• What Makes Up Realestate Investment Companies? Find Out in This Comprehensive Guide

  
  Earn Passive Income — Authority: 150
  Realestate investment companies always have this two-pronged vision: first, to provide sound investments and quality domiciled houses for financially able individuals; and second, to further strengthen the company’s grip on upscale local residential market. And with trends and patterns continuing to provide ...
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• CNBC: Commercial Real Estate Optimism Boosts Regional Banks

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  Finally, some commentary on commercial real estate that’s not all doom and gloom. The important point–there will be stratification. It’s not going to be an outright collapse. And REITs look better every day.
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• Report: Simon Looking at General Growth

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  This just came over the wires from the Wall Street Journal . It appears Simon Property Group has hired an adviser and is evaluating General Growth Properties. Meanwhile, Westfield Group also has cash it could use as part of an acquisition. Could a bidding war be afoot? Or could the firms be looking to divvy up ...
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• Property Fundamentals Might Be Stabilizing, But New Projects Face Delays (Wednesday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  This seems to be a bad week to be a developer. At least three major projects around the country might be delayed, for reasons ranging from unfavorable market conditions to disputes over wages for future mall employees. Chicago developer Joseph Freed & Associates is facing a messy court battle with its lender ...
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• Tracing the Commercial Real Estate Boom and Bust

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  Business Insider has an interesting chronology posted on its site tracing the rise and fall of commercial real estate that’s left us in a situation today in which we’re looking at a wave of defaults making its way through the industry. I’ve embedded the presentation below. It’s done in a slightly annoying ...
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• Paulson Adds $1.5 Billion Of Citi Stock, Sells Entire Goldman Stake And Some Bank Of America

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  The latest Paulson & Co. 13F is out : the man who inspires a million hedge fund clone portfolios has made some interesting changes to his holdings. The most notable is the documented addition of 300 million share of Citigroup, a new position for the firm. Offsetting this is the sale of 8.2 million shares of Bank ...
  2 weeks ago

• Costco Takes Manhattan; Banks Shake Off Toxic Loans (Friday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  It was a mixed bag today in terms of news for the retail real estat industry. Costco’s announcement of its first store in Manhattan was encouraging. Wal-Mart’s warning that we might be in for a lackluster holiday shopping season was not. For some landlords, the break-down in leasing fundamentals is proving to ...
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• Daily Credit Summary: November 12 - Deficit Schmeficit

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Following yesterdays modest rally in European credit, US opened tighter and rallied to the weeks tightest levels on jobless headlines and the Job Summit. Equities failed again at 1100 and helped by FHA comments, weak MBA apps data, and an outstanding effort on the deficit, slid gently lower. Credit wavered all but ...
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• Tranche Warfare; Evaluations of TALF; Banks Adopt New Rules (Wednesday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  Here are some recent news and notes about retail and retail real estate. Ready for tranche warfare? FinCriAdviser takes a good look at the brewing tensions building between senior and junior bondholders of CMBS debt. The story predicts we’ll see a fair number of lawsuits stemming from conflicts over how to ...
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• Is Goldman Preparing To Upgrade The REIT Sector?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Just when it seemed that all the stops had been pulled on the REIT juggernaut and nothing else would be able to surprise to the upside, save for Vornado finding an ancient Mayan city made of 24k gold in its back yard, after we read the attached research report on US REITs from Goldman analyst Jonathan Habermann, we ...
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• Daily Credit Summary: November 10 - Basel Tov

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Spreads were mixed to slightly tighter in the major indices today despite negative breadth in single-names. HY outperformed IG as both indices saw inside days amid low volumes pre-holiday tomorrow. Financials outperformed non-financials but the financials were off their best levels by the close (as we suspect some ...
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• The Future of Commercial Real Estate ETFs

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 561
  As we take a moment to reflect on the past year, it becomes obvious that the housing market bust crippled the economy. What made this cyclical bust in the real estate and related exchange traded fund (ETF) markets different from the others?Unrealistic assumptions, multiple layers of investors and...
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• Retail Sector to See More Closings in 2010; More Pain for Owners (Monday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  As we head into the all-important November/December shopping season, the stakes are getting high for everyone involved. Some retailers are working on holiday sales strategies that will protect them from taking huge hits on prices, while others are mulling over further store closings. The retail industry’s ...
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• Vanguard ETFs: How It Gained a Foothold In a Competitive Market

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 561
  Vanguard was a relative latecomer to the exchange traded fund (ETF) industry, launching its first fund in 2001. But the firm has since become the third-largest ETF provider, thanks in part to low fees. Vanguard Group Inc. is already the largest U.S. stock and bond mutual fund manager, and now the...
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• Los Angeles Luxury Rental Pains Accelerate As REIT BRE Properties Continues Feeling Goldman Anger (And Underperforming)

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  If multi-apartment REIT BRE Properties is any indication of the housing "recovery" that is currently occurring on the West Coast, then look for several more decades of "exceptional" interest rates (when the exception is the norm, will any future rate hike be announced as exceptional as well... some time in 2020?). ...
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• More Worries About Commercial Real Estate; NIMBY Wars; Dollar General’s IPO (Wednesday’s News & Notes)

  
  TrafficCourt — Authority: 507
  More people are worrying about commercial real estate. A Reuters piece from earlier this week features comments from Jon Greenlee, associate director of the Fed’s Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation . Greenlee, remember, testified in a hearing before Congress in July on the precarious state of ...
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