Investors in U.S. real estate markets are currently experiencing unprecedented adversity. The subprime mortgage debacle, the collapse, or near collapse, of many of the world’s most storied financial institutions, the freezing of capital markets, massive governmental bailouts, and horrifying daily declines in public stock markets, and other events have been well publicized, but they do not even begin to describe the economic difficulties being faced by investors across the globe.
Although there is some debate about whether or to what extent the economic recession may recede during 2009, many analysts and observers are bracing for more, not less, turbulence in the U.S. commercial real estate markets in the upcoming year.
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