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Strategies & Market Trends : Commercial Real Estate tic.............tic,,,

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From: jmiller09911/13/2008 1:46:56 AM
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Commercial real estate outlook darkens for 2009
Wednesday November 12, 4:48 pm ET
By J.W. Elphinstone, AP Real Estate Writer
Sinking economy and tight credit markets hurt commercial real estate tenants and landlords

NEW YORK (AP) -- What a difference six weeks makes.
Like blows to the commercial real estate industry, the headlines just keep coming: Circuit City files for bankruptcy protection, DHL is slashing its U.S. operations, Wall Street is handing out pink slips like ticker tape...

The 2009 outlook for the commercial real estate sector has turned suddenly bleak. Rents and vacancies at shopping centers and office buildings will suffer the most, but industrial buildings and apartments won't be immune to the downdraft.

"It blows my mind how fast this has happened. We had thought commercial real estate would be OK because it wasn't overbuilt," said Robert Bach, chief economist at Grubb and Ellis Co., at the company's 2009 Real Estate Forecast panel in New York on Wednesday.

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Comments: Grubby needs to replace their economist with some cornbread...
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