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Tokyo Economy Takes Flight
Feb 01, 2007
Kazaam! Pow! Boof! After a decade when the game seemed permanently over, someone finally hit the reset button on the Japanese economy, and the Tokyo office market is once again heading up, up, and away...
Investors Shy Away from Budapest
Dec 01, 2006
Angry at the prime minister following revelations that he had lied about the shaky state of Hungary's finances, 10,000 citizens took to the streets in September in protests that left 150 injured. Not surprisingly, a...
What Bubble?
Oct 01, 2006
The lofty sums of money investors are shelling out for commercial real estate assets are at an all-time high, but a recent study conducted by Global Real Analytics (GRA) found that real prices adjusted for inflation...
Breaking the Color Barrier
Sep 01, 2006
Chicago investor Quintin Primo III realized a long time ago that being an African American in commercial real estate was an asset, not a liability. “Being black in a room full of white professionals makes me different...
Global Investors Play Offense in Germany
Jul 01, 2006
At this year's World Cup hosted by Germany, billions of fans were mesmerized by matches whose results didn't sound too exciting to an American ear: 1-0, 2-1, 1-1. Something similar seems to be going on with Germany's...
Will the Brownfields Bloom?
Jun 01, 2006
Twenty-five years ago, the country was dotted with over 450,000 sites too contaminated with chemicals and other industrial waste to build on. Today, there are still hundreds of thousands of brownfields, but...
Beijing Goes for Gold
Apr 01, 2006
The 2008 Olympics may be three years away, but right now the odds seem good that Beijing will set records in at least one event: the property value high-dive. With millions of square meters in new commercial real...
Divots to Dollars
Feb 01, 2006
In many of the best locations for new residential development — places near existing jobs, schools and shopping — there's a scarcity of available land. Often, however, such neighborhoods have 150-acre and 200-acre...
Hey, Look Me Over
Jan 01, 2006
CEOs of public companies often complain about the pressure of meeting analysts' expectations. But it's a problem executives of many smaller REITS probably wouldn't mind having. As Oscar Wilde once observed, the only...
The China Risk Puzzle
Dec 01, 2005
After years of glowing reports about the booming growth of Chinese real estate, a number of leading Western developers and private equity funds are preparing to enter the market...
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