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>   Raindrops Keep Falling: 2009 outlook is stormy
>   Seeing Clearly: Cross-border investment drives transparency
>   Studying Seaports: Industrial investment opportunities exist near ports
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>   Investment Notes
>   Foreign Exchange
>   Did You Know?
 


 
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Raindrops Keep Falling: 2009 outlook is stormy

The global economy is sick and the prognosis for 2009 is gloomy at best. The United States and much of the EuroZone are expected to be in a recession next year, while the Asian and Latin American economies will slow significantly, according to global economists.

"2009 is going to be a year where we need to wear our hard hats," says Sean O'Dowd, a senior capital markets analyst with Boston-based consulting firm Financial Insights. "We're going to take some artillery fire… it's going to be a nasty fight."
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Seeing Clearly: Cross-border investment drives transparency

With commercial property investors around the world feeling anxious and uncertain about real estate values, credit availability, and the weak economy, transparency is even more important today than it has been in the past. Fortunately, more and more countries are increasingly transparent. They're making it easier to do business by facilitating the availability and accuracy of market information and cracking down on corruption.

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Studying Seaports: Industrial investment opportunities exist near ports

The slowing global economy and the credit crisis has impacted the volume of goods and materials going in and out of U.S. seaports, pushing down demand for industrial property near these seaports. But, the widening of the Panama Canal and the predicted growth in imports and exports has compelled seaports on both U.S. coasts to expand and has encouraged industrial property investors to look for projects near these expanding seaports.

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Investment Notes

While the global credit crunch has dramatically decreased commercial property transaction volumes during the first six months of 2008, a slower economy and increased costs of capital have created a surge of corporate sale-leasebacks, according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s H12008 Global Real Estate Capital Report.

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Foreign Exchange

Although the United Kingdom's economy is suffering a marked downturn, new shopping centers equivalent in size to more than six Bluewaters will have opened in the UK by the end of 2008, according to Cushman & Wakefield's new UK Shopping Centre Development report. The annual figure of 945,000 square meters is the highest since the brokerage firm began keeping records in 1965 with the opening of the country’s first shopping centre in Elephant & Castle, London.

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Did You Know?

American consumers react more radically to changes in their housing wealth than to changes in the size of their bank accounts, according to research by economists from the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate and the University of California Los Angeles Ziman Center for Real Estate.

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