Commercial real estate demand is derived from activity in the overall economy.
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Single-family housing starts hit their highest level since the first-time homebuyer tax credit sparked residential real estate demand back in April 2010, helping housing starts hit an annualized 750, 000 in August.
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There could be a negative impact on consumer and business confidence and thus spending, which could translate into reduced economic activity and as a result reduced commercial real estate demand, at least in the interim.
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As commercial real estate space demand is highly dependent on economic growth this certainly did not look good.
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Many eventually went into real estate, where demand was also good because of rapid urbanization and demographic change.
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With residential real estate picking up demand will only increase going into 2013.
Beaches that were washed away are coming back, due both to nature and bulldozers, and real estate agents say demand for this strangest of upcoming summers appears good, particularly in the large portions of the Jersey shore that were relatively unscathed by Sandy.
Moreover, a lid on real estate appreciation has also slowed demand about construction companies.
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The larger impact for commercial real estate could be on the demand side, at least in the near term.
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"Steel mills anticipate stronger demand from real estate in the year ahead" said Graeme Train, metals analyst at Macquarie.
All are suffering from a bout of inflation, due to stronger currencies, high domestic demand for real estate and services, and rising commodity prices.
But that is backwards the place where tall buildings can unlock the most value is in the downtown core, where demand for real estate is highest.
Home demand, real estate companies and the economy will then improve.
According to the 2012 State of the Industry Report by CoreNet Global, a corporate real estate association, the continuing demand for the workplace is to serve as a central place for collaboration.
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These are frothy numbers by any standard, and reflect in part the declining numbers of foreclosures being sold at giveaway prices in the interior markets of the state, and in part the underlying economic demand for real estate in the coastal cities, where prices traditionally have been high but plummeted dramatically during the recession years.
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As demand outpaces supply, more real-estate agents are working to drum up leads by telling homeowners about intense buyer demand in their local neighborhoods.
Yet strict density limits are preventing real estate developers from meeting the market demand for more housing and office space.
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Yet more recently, excess supply has been absorbed in many of the more desirable real estate markets leading to modestly higher demand.
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Real estate is less alluring in Britain, now enjoying huge demand for office space, especially in London's financial center (see " Redcoat Real Estate, " FORBES, Apr. 23).
Yet real estate developers, demographers and economists believe demand across the U.S. for downtown living will flourish in coming years.
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Even so, the drooping real-estate market, combined with declining demand for Chinese exports in Europe and elsewhere, pulled back China's economy to an 8.1% pace in the first quarter of 2012, the slowest growth since the spring of 2009, when the world was in recession.
Nevertheless, on the real estate side we are seeing some improvement because demand is there and this will help the developers pay down their debt.
And for customers, that means better performance, less demand for expensive data-center real estate and energy costs, and simplified system management.
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Real estate is less alluring in Britain, now enjoying huge demand for office space, especially in London's financial center.
The supply of real estate is fixed in the short term, so increased demand from a few optimistic investors will push prices above their equilibrium level.
Mark David, who runs the celebrity real estate site The Real Estalker says homes generally don't demand a premium just because a celebrity was living there.
As a result of this burgeoning demand for Russian property, housing and commercial real estate values are expected to rise, though the report did not estimate by how much.
High prices for the precious metal, price volatility, a fragile labor market, depressed real estate prices and volatile stock market all contributed to hesitant consumer demand and fragile consumer confidence, WGC said.
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If a source has low power density, then it will likely require too much real estate, material or space to provide the power that we demand at prices we can afford or in the vast quantities that the world needs.
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