ING Investment Management forecasts that stock markets will rise between 8% and 12% in 2011, thanks to a low-inflation, low-interest environment supported by the Fed, despite weak GDP growth. And for those looking for to incre…
24/7 Wall St. analyzed large real estate transactions in the U.S. to come up with a list of the top 10 biggest deals. They’re surprisingly homogeneous: All are in Manhattan, occurred in the past 10 years — and most are office …
The residential real estate market is drowning in foreclosures, and the problem is broadening and worsening. Similar bad loans have been made in commercial real estate, so why isn’t there a comparable flood of commercial forecl…
One month doesn’t make a trend, but builders in the beleaguered U.S. construction sector will take any good news they can get, and in August they received some: an unexpected 0.4% increase in construction spending, led by government-funded projects.
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Amid all the whining about residential and commercial real estate markets, exchange-traded funds comprising real estate investment trusts have quietly been kicking butt. They’re up 22% year-to-date through Sept. 21, compared to…