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By AZ Advisory Team, December 11, 2009 1:17 pm

Commercial Real Estate Investment: The latest results of the Moody’s REAL Commercial Property Index continue to indicate that our country’s commercial real estate markets are definitely experiencing a tremendous downturn, with prices plummeting at a whopping 42.70% since the peak set in October 2007.

Alex Zylberglait provides commercial real estate investment advisory as well as research, estate planning, asset allocation, valuation, financing, special assets services, transaction advisory and commercial property acquisition and disposition services.

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By AZ Advisory Team, December 10, 2009 7:48 pm

The 2010 Emerging Trends in Real Estate, released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, forecasts that commercial real estate values will bottom in 2010 and that values will decline an average of 40 percent from their peak in 2007. The survey called this fall the worst commercial decline since the Great Depression and said it would overshadow the 1990s savings-and-loan crisis.

This is a great opportunity for cash investors to go for quality assets and realize returns as the economy bounces back.

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By Alex Zylberglait, December 7, 2009 4:17 pm

Got news today that a real estate giant in Qatar, called Barwa is exploring investment opportunities in US commercial real estate and is encouraging other investors to join him as he made a presentation at a one-day business seminar “Entering the US Market“.

Barwa Real Estate Company deputy chief executive officer and Group Strategy & Investment executive director Mohamed Abdul Aziz al-Saad said in a report that the company’s investment exploration will be focused on commercial properties.

The company with over QR25bn (USD6.8bn) in assets value, has previously invested in Sudan, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Switzerland, France, Turkey, among other countries, as part of its international portfolio.

“It’s not going to be centered on coastal areas in the US only…” al-Saad added.

More and more foreigners are seeing opportunities opening up for commercial real estate investments. Howabout you, what do you see? From wherever part of the globe you are, opportunities are opening up here in the U.S for foreign investors. Contact me for a free consultation.

Alex Zylberglait provides commercial real estate investment advisory as well as research, estate planning, asset allocation, valuation, financing, special assets services, transaction advisory and commercial property acquisition and disposition services.

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By AZ Advisory Team, November 30, 2009 1:38 pm

OK, so here are some good news in terms of the desired movement in the commercial real estate sector. Thirty five (35) percent of global investors plan to increase their property allocation in their portfolios over the next two years.  This is double the seventeen (17) percent who plan to reduce it over the same period according to the Barclays Wealth and Economist Intelligence Unit (BARC.L) survey. This is because they foresee better long-term returns in real estate than from stocks and bonds.

The U.S. was rated at the top as the most popular nation for investment, with 16 percent of the global investors saying they are expecting to see the best returns here. Sixty eight (68) percent of these investors said that the opportunities are in the commercial properties. Belief that properties are now undervalued was the second most common reason cited for increasing investment.

Barclay’s survey has 2,000 respondents. Forty percent were worth 500,000 pounds to 1 million pounds. An additional 40 percent were worth between 1 million pounds and 10 million pounds. Ten percent had assets of as much as 30 million pounds and the rest were wealthier.