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Sponsored by GE Real Estate - Produced by National Real Estate Investor Magazine September  2009  VOL. 2    

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Multifamily Outlook

Challenging conditions today, better times ahead

Today’s multifamily market continues to struggle, creating a difficult situation for owners and managers. Although the next 12 months will continue to be tough, the market should begin to improve in mid-2010, and multifamily owners and managers can look forward to a prosperous future. Read Article ...



U.S. REITs Regroup 

Balance sheets strengthened with equity and debt offerings  

Earlier this year, things were looking pretty grim for the U.S. REIT sector. Without exception, REITs saw stock values drop significantly, pushing their debt-to-equity ratios out of whack and weakening their balance sheets. With the credit markets frozen and REITs unable to refinance much of their mortgage debt, it seemed many REITs were on the verge of financial disaster.
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Investment Notes

Transaction activity in the first half of 2009 slumped to just $16 billion, down 80 percent from $79.8 billion in the first half of 2008, and down 93 percent from $231.4 billion in the first half of 2007, when the market was at its peak. The new numbers were provided by Jones Lang LaSalle’s U.S. Mid-Year Capital Markets bulletin.

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Foreign Exchange

The EUR 5 billion in new equity that has been pumped into the UK listed property sector via rights issues and share placement during the past 10 months appears to be having a strong stabilizing influence on the market, according to new Net Asset Value (NAV) research data from the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA).

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