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>   Going Coastal: Portland enjoys growing interest from institutional investors
>   Street Smarts: Infrastructure Emerges as New Asset Class
>   Private Equity Impacts European Real Estate
Briefs
>   Investment Notes
>   Foreign Exchange
>   Did You Know?
 
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Going Costal

Going Coastal: Portland enjoys growing interest from institutional investors

While international buyers have yet to make a significant entrée into the West Coast stronghold of Portland, Ore., out-of-state buyers have begun to recognize opportunities in the market. Healthy fundamentals and high barriers to entry, along with affordability, are generating plenty of investor interest. Read Article ...
Chicago Skyway

Street Smarts: Infrastructure Emerges as New Asset Class

With so much capital flowing into traditional real estate sectors like office and retail, many investors are looking for better returns in a new asset class - infrastructure. Building, repairing, operating and owning water, electricity, and transportation systems around the world can be very profitable. Read Article ...
Boots

Private Equity Impacts European Real Estate

Politicians have sometimes derided private equity investors as locusts, but many European real estate professionals believe the free-wheeling funds are actually more like bees - helpful creatures that have broadened the European commercial real estate market and made the economy as a whole more efficient. Read Article ...
Briefs

Investment Notes

Private equity's thirst for commercial real estate companies has been temporarily slaked by two more blockbuster deals: Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers' $22.2 billion bid for apartment REIT Archstone-Smith and Morgan Stanley Real Estate's $6.5 billion offer for Fort Worth, Texas-based Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. More

Foreign Exchange

Middle Eastern investors were among the most active buyers and sellers of commercial real estate in 2006. Investors from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries invested $13 billion across the globe, a 14 percent increase over 2005, according to Jones Lang LaSalle's latest Global Real Estate Capital Report. More ...

Did You Know?

More than 80 percent of North America-based corporations plan to expand their data centers over the next two years, according to a study conducted by research firm Campos Research & Analysis and commissioned by Digital Realty Trust Inc., a San Francisco-based REIT that owns and manages corporate data centers. More ...
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