The real estate sector, both commercial and residential, remains wobbly as price decreases and slow sales persist.
Now a simple reform two years ago is drawing billions of dollars into the country's real estate sector.
With the real estate sector obliterated and Europe in shambles, supply of safe assets has fallen dramatically, Kocherlakota explained.
His largest new position in the real estate sector in the fourth quarter was Realogy Holdings Corp. ( RLGY).
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In general, the real estate sector has been slow to adopt high-tech options.
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In many ways, medical office buildings offer the most stable and dependable returns in the health care real estate sector.
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China's real estate sector has seen a slowdown in recent months mainly due to government curbs to bring down sky-rocketing prices.
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The price of residential properties cannot be estimated exactly because there are major upswings in the real estate sector of Chennai.
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Now the non-residential real estate sector is showing some signs of life.
Meanwhile, research by KPMG on zombie companies suggested the construction and real estate sector was experiencing the worst effects of the downturn.
The Philippine central bank proceeded to impose a 20% ceiling on banks' lending to the real estate sector -- a modest level by Asian standards.
The non-residential real estate sector was not overbuilt as housing was.
The commercial real estate sector across Europe poses another major risk.
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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.
The residential real estate sector had been at the epicenter of the financial crisis, taking a particularly hard hit as the global economy went down the drain.
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Small banks, in particular, are vulnerable to troubles in the commercial real estate sector because they tend to hold a high proportion of property-related loans to total loans.
Investors will get another data point from the housing market on Tuesday, the Case-Shiller Home Price indexes, which should show continued strength in the residential real estate sector.
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Recently, rising prices led the government to issue a guideline to tighten its grip on the real estate sector, raising taxes by as much as 20% for transactions.
However, a recently proposed merger with a sister fund, the DCA Total Return Fund ( DCA), aims to change the investment focus away from the real estate sector.
According data from GMI, the corporate governance research firm, more than 80% of major U.S. real estate companies have appointed Audit Committee members with significant real estate sector experience.
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And there are serious financial problems still to be resolved including on-going sovereign debt issues in Europe, the budgetary mess in Washington, continued weakness in American residential housing, and a seriously overextended U.S. commercial real estate sector.
The prospect is for that situation to worsen as state and local budget assistance from the federal stimulus efforts wind down, while the woes in the real estate sector have returned now that the homebuyer rebates have expired.
As was discussed in a previous piece, in China, there is no such thing as really private enterprises as we understand them in the US especially in the real estate sector, where the communist party is still the ultimate landowner.
The actual process of buying or selling property is quite fascinating, with the vast majority of the laws governing the real estate sector firmly rooted in the 19th century (Transfer of Property Act 1882, and the Indian Stamp Act 1899) with little updating done to reflect the realities of the modern era.
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When asked to identify three locations and real-estate sector combinations, investors pointed to industrial and logistics real estate in Greater China as the second most appealing sector, behind the office market in Australia.
Regulators in early November warned the trust companies of risks in the real-estate sector.
By its own estimate, about 30% of lending went to the shaky real-estate sector, mostly Bangkok housing.
"Having property developers turn to trusts should act as a limit on overheating of the real-estate sector simply because the higher cost of capital leaves them with less options, " said Mr. Gleave.
But despite the debt crisis, economic contraction in many European Union countries and instability in the European banking system, experts at Jones Lang LaSalle say confidence in the hotel real-estate sector has risen since October 2011.
In a survey by industry association Anrev tracking investment intentions in the Asian-Pacific region early this year, 68% of the 110 respondents noted a preference for investing in the industrial and logistics real-estate sector this year, up sharply from 28% in 2012.
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