"Real Estate Cycles and Outlook 2001

Overview: Real Estate Cycles and Outlook 2001, it provides information to joint clients with a collective overview of the public and private real estate markets and introduces them to the new joint venture Realpoint. Economic change and apprehension regarding the economy have characterized the few months. The stock market, highly influenced by a tech shakeup and deteriorating economic conditions, is approaching a 50 percent loss in value since its peak in March 2000. In addition, the Federal Reserve Bank unexpectedly cut the overnight bank-lending rate by 50 basis points in the first week of January 2001 due to deteriorating economic conditions. The quick economic deceleration and anxiety about the future makes this paper timely. It can incorporate these fast moving events into the models and study the impact of either a hard landing (recession) or soft landing scenario on the real estate markets. The year 2001 will be very different from 2000 and real estate investors will have to be prepared. This paper will help. The Real Estate Cycles and Outlook 2001 is divided into eleven chapters focusing on each of the real estate quadrants in special ways. An outlook for each quadrant is presented and the recent performance in these markets is reviewed. It also present some original research on the effects of a "tech wreck" - the effects of the dotcoms on office leasing in selected markets, and some new ideas and tools, which we have developed for assessing and managing risk for both the equity and debt worlds. In other words , the real estate sector is at a new beginning stage, a beginning that may bring, in the long term, more efficiency and perhaps less development volatility. However, the evidence on the nature and magnitude of these benefits is still being collected.

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Format: PDF | Size: 501KB | Date: Jan 2001 | Pages: 81