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		<title><![CDATA[What's Next for Real Estate?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/article/whats-next-for-real-estate/368336/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There?s been plenty of encouraging news about real estate lately, but that doesn?t mean we?re out of the woods yet. In fact, many economists believe that housing prices won?t really bottom out until the second half of 2010, and then will only move sideways for a while. Here's what you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fed's Lockhart: Need to Ensure Recovery is Durable]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA, Georgia (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - The U.S. economic recovery is under way and policymakers should now focus on ensuring it is a durable one, a top Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday."Now that growth has resumed, the overall objective of economic policy should be to bring about a durable recovery and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:45:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stuyvesant Town Woes May Pave Way For Loan Changes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ilaina JonasNEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - The joint venture that borrowed heavily to buy Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in 2006 could be among the first to take advantage of changes in U.S. tax law that let borrowers seek payment relief, when it said last week that it could...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RAIT Financial Trust Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions. And your first question comes from the line of David Fick of Stifel Nicolaus. Josh Barber &#8211; Stifel Nicolaus Good morning. It&#8217;s Josh Barber here with Dave. Jack, I was wondering if you can give us an idea what adjusted earnings would have looked like...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:14:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Midsize Banks Most Vulnerable to Looming Commercial Real Estate Bust]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've written before about the bomb that's set to fall on U.S. banks in the form of deteriorating commercial real estate loans. Many of these institutions are already buckling because of high losses on their home loans. So a bust in CRE mortgages would hurt, and could be the coup...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:47:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Illinois Real Estate Exec Takes Minor Stake In New Republic]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What is it with Illinois real estate magnates and their penchant for investing in money-losing publications? Michael Alter, the president of his family&#8217;s commercial real estate business has taken a 12 percent stake in liberal-leaning political mag The New Republic, Chicago Tribune reported via Romenesko. This is not Alter&#8217;s...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Our Next Financial Showdown: Commercial Real Estate]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated August 19, 2009    The U.S. economy is not out of the woods, but important indicators are at least signaling the end of the freefall in the housing market. Our next worry may be commercial real estate, which has been going through the same cycle of falling...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[W.P. Carey & Co. LLC Wall Street Analyst Forum Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionUnidentified Participant  Inaudible Question Gordon DuGan  Two very good questions, one a lot very little bit more about our global investment business and what has happened in the dynamics of that business with respect to cap rate etcetera, where are you invested, how you invested and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[New York Community Bancorp Inc.Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Our first question is coming from the side of Mark Fitzgibbon with Sandler O'Neill. Mark Fitzgibbon - Sandler O'Neill I wondered if you could share with us the $62 million increase in non-performers, how much of that came from multi-family and commercial real estate loans?...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:17:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UCBH Holdings Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14037_23-292016.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions  Your first question comes from Aaron Deer - Sandler O'Neill. Aaron Deer &#8211; Sandler O'Neill & Partners  I guess first you had some discussion on credit. I'm just curious with the, I've seen the problems move from kind of the distressed single-family home...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sterling Bancshares, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions. And our first question is from Jon Arfstrom from RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Jon Arfstrom &#8211; RBC Capital Markets  Thanks good morning. Zach L. Wasson Good morning. J. Downey Bridgwater Hi, Jon. Jon Arfstrom &#8211; RBC Capital Markets Almost I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:50:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[2009 Industry Outlook: Real Estate - Challenging Times, Emerging Opportunities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=932297]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The current slowdown in commercial real estate activity is not about equity - there are companies that have plenty of that. When financing at reasonable rates becomes more readily available the floodgates should open because real estate continues to attract domestic and international investors. Two actions, in particular, could help...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CapitalSource, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Your first question comes from the line of Robert Napoli from Piper Jaffray. Please proceed. Robert Napoli &#8211; Piper Jaffray  Thank you. Good morning. Few questions, one question and a follow-up, I guess, but the first question would be on the credit. John, I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:43:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Direct Investment In Commercial Real Estate]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313968]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper formed the basis of the keynote address to the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society conference in Melbourne. In the asset allocation process, direct real estate investment suffers from some perceived disadvantages and this paper summarises research, funded by practice, into three of these perceived disadvantages; depreciation in value,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=151036]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article provides insight into commercial mortgage backed securities CMBS. CMBS are bonds that have been collateralized by a pool of commercial real estate mortgages. All of the principal and interest from the mortgages flow to bondholders over the life of the bonds. Typically CMBS trusts range in size from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Optimal Capital Structure and the Market for Outside Finance in Commercial Real Estate]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=118321]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When asked about optimal capital structure, the typical response from a commercial real estate investor is "go for it?use as much debt as possible." This answer, while not being necessarily incorrect, is not very informative. This paper seeks to articulate the economics underlying the market for outside finance in commercial...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Testing Alternative Theories of Property Price-Trading Volume With Commercial Real Estate Market Data]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=129848]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The significant price-trading volume correlation found in the residential property market presents a challenge to the rational expectation hypothesis. Existing theories account for this fact with either capital market imperfection (down-payment effect or loss-aversion consideration) or imperfect information search theoretic models. This paper employs data from both the sale and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks face risk management challenges.(Banking And Finance)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5262/is_200307/ai_n20395762]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. banks and savings institutions continue to face risk  management challenges in a number of key areas even as bottom-line  earnings of insured institutions set new records, the Federal Deposit  Insurance Corp. FDIC said.    According to the "  U.S. banks and savings institutions...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Sector View of Public Market Ownership of Commercial Real Estate in the United States]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A popular topic in financial research has been the development and perfection of models for pricing stocks. A three-factor pricing model that incorporates a real estate factor along with stock market and interest rate factors is developed. Results of the analysis lend support to the application of the three-factor model...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Role of Uncertainity in Investment: An Examination of Competing Investment Model Using Commercial Real Estate Data]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=63253]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Neo-classical investment decision criteria suggest that only the systematic component of the total risk affect the rate of investment, as channeled through the built-asset price. Alternatively, option-base investment model suggests a direct role for total uncertainty in investment decision marketing. To sort out uncertainty role in the investment, they estimate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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