To be sure, such financial innovation has outrun regulation, allowing the widespread fraud that ultimately crashed real estate values and the economy.
Home demand, real estate companies and the economy will then improve.
The boom went bust in 2008, and banks incurred huge debts from bad real estate loans while the economy slowed, the jobless rate increased, and consumer spending stalled.
Commercial real estate lags the broader economy, so many property owners are seeing the benefits from the climb out of recession now, even with the U.S. mired in a soft patch.
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Commercial real estate, and the larger economy, need supply side economics to work.
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The real estate market has impacted the economy as Beijing corrals developers in an effort to avoid an explosive housing bubble.
Betting on such growth, which investors are doing by holding this stock, seems too risky even in an economy where real estate appears to be rebounding.
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Until late in 2011, the focus of policymakers in China was on tamping down inflation, stocked by a surge of stimulus spending in 2008-2009 that led to a real estate bubble and an overheated economy.
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On the other hand, due to the high oil prices and the bursting of real estate bubble, the USA economy is recently giving strong signals of a forthcoming stagflation: a recession with increasing inflation rate.
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See United for a Fair Economy Cheers New Responsible Estate Tax Act.
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On a larger scale, Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) funds like this one could potentially help the economy by spurring real estate development and investment.
You might find yourself buying into investment types that only recently seemed to be eating the economy alive (real estate) or having a horrible year (commodities) or are suspect on the face of it (emerging market debt).
Many have benefitted by repatriating foreign funds with limited earning potential into a depressed U.S. economy with a suffering real estate market and numerous business opportunities.
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This, in turn, will be good for China and the world economy, as the real estate market will be in for a soft landing rather than a hard-landing.
That's been the case for Cendant over the past couple of years, as a hot housing market and growing economy have lifted its real estate and travel-related revenue.
The real-estate-dependent U.S. economy is starting to wheeze.
Still, the continuing face-lift and construction boom hasn't insulated Guangzhou's economy and commercial real-estate market from the global economic slowdown, which is battering the manufacturing sector in the province of Guangdong in southern China where Guangzhou is located.
Real estate prices are too high, and the economy will never truly recover unless they are allowed to fall.
If we had done that then, by now the real estate market and the U.S. economy would be in recovery.
Mogadishu's growing economy is manifested not just in real estate and the hotel sector.
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Commercial real estate is tied closely not only to the national economy, but also to local economies.
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"Since commercial real estate is tied to the U.S. economy, it's unlikely REITs can generate outsize earnings going forward, " he says.
If some sectors of the Cypriot economy - finance, construction, real estate, retailing - must inevitably shrink, what other parts could take up the slack?
Commercial real estate demand is derived from activity in the overall economy.
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It seems safe to say the support the economy has been getting from the real estate sector has gone away for at least a few months.
Participating taxpayers may well benefit by repatriating foreign funds with limited earning potential into a depressed U.S. economy, a long-suffering real estate market and business opportunities lurking behind every corner.
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Residential prices are heading downward in some major cities, damping some undesired real-estate speculation but raising the prospect that the Chinese economy may slow more rapidly than anticipated with profound consequences for global growth.
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That means increasing small company and real estate exposure in your portfolio should help you track the economy better.
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