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Real Estate Market Watch
Real Estate Market Watch brings you articles and latest news about the state of the real estate market both nationally and locally. The focus of the articles here is mainly on the state of the market with respect to demand, supply, new construction, prices, rents, trends, current momentum, and future prospects. Market Watch aims at providing latest market information about all types of real estate, that is, offices, retail, industrial, warehouse, apartments and single-family homes. See below, in the Housing-Apartment section, the latest market watch update regarding OFEHO's release of changes in single-family home prices during the first three months of 2007. Check also here for real estate market data sources. LOCATIONS: OUTLOOK AND PROSPECTS Fastest Growing Markets Over the Period 2000-2006 Fastest Growing Counties in 2006 New York, Tokyo, London, Paris: Cities of Opportunity? Stay Tuned COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET US Market Quarterly April 2007 Panamerica Real Estate Investors’ quarterly market report, issued in April 2007, concludes that liquidity in the real estate capital markets is still very accommodating, while US real estate investment trusts (REITs) continued to outperform equity markets in the first quarter of 2007. In the private real estate market property fundamentals remained healthy continuing to support rent growth. First quarter transaction activity continued at very high levels but large-scale deals have been an important part of this activity. Finally, the report points to the slowing economy and the risk that such trend implies for total investment returns given today’s low yields. See the full report. How the Sub-prime Crisis Might Impact Commercial Real Estate? Retail U.S. Retail Real Estate in Transition: Investors Position Portfolios for the Next Cycle According to Real Capital Analytics Inc.,total retail deal volume in the U.S., after a five-year run up remained flat at around $50.5 billion dollars in 2006. Investors seem to position themselves in 2007 for the next phase of the real estate cycle. Read article.. Industrial Southern California Industrial Market Outlook by Laura Stone Mortimer Southern California hosts the largest industrial market in the US. See what the top real estate research experts of Torto Wheaton Research have to say regarding the outlook for this market. Read article.. Housing-Apartments Home Prices 1st Quarter of 2007: Still Going Up in Most Markets! Single-family home prices increases in 242 metropolitan markets, remained stable in 11 markets and declined in 28 markets, in the first quarter of 2007, according to data released by .... Housing Construction in April 2007 Still Considerably Below Last Year's Levels National Association of Realtors (NAR) Economic and Real Estate Forecast NAR's latest forecast of May 2007 predicts that sales of existing single-family homes will drop 2.9% in 2007 while prices are expected to drop 1%. Although NAR predicts that sales of new single-family homes will drop 17.8% in 2007 prices are expected to hold on and stay at 2006 levels. See the full forecast.. Residential Construction in March 2007 was Considerably Below Last Year's Levels
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