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Sponsored by GE Real Estate - Produced by National Real Estate Investor Magazine August  2010  VOL. 3   

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School Spirit:

Student housing makes the grade with investors

As college students across the nation head back to school this month, both anxious and eager over the challenges and adventures to come, student housing owners and operators are feeling confident about their business. The student housing sector has performed better than all other commercial real estate sectors during this economic downturn. And that outstanding performance has enticed new investors to direct money into student housing. Both institutional and private investors have identified the sector as one in which they want to place capital.
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Re-Thinking REIT IPOs:

Hopes dwindle as year goes on

Although we still have four months left in the year, it’s not too soon to say that 2010 has been a disappointing year for REIT IPOs – both in terms of the number of IPOs, the offering price and the performance after going public. “I really thought we would see a slew of REIT IPOs in 2010,” says Martin Luskin, a partner with Blank Rome LLP. “Instead, we’ve seen a lot of deals get shelved or postponed.”
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Investment Notes

Leasing activity in the U.S. industrial market has increased 25.8 percent year-over-year, while the overall vacancy rate has declined for the first time in 11 quarters, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s midyear report.  

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Foreign Exchange

Brazil’s quick rebound in economic fundamentals in the second half of 2009 resulted in average daily rate (ADR) growth of 10.4 percent for the year, one of the highest growth rates posted by any large country worldwide last year, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels’ Lodging Industry in Numbers – Brazil 2010. The firm’s report provides a detailed performance analysis of more than 340 hotels, condo hotels and resorts in Brazil, in what is the largest surveyed sample of hotels since the report’s inception. 

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