Retail, office properties still battling uncertainty

opportunity everywhere (or at least 26% of everywhere) for tenants to grab good deals and investors to purchase distressed...see below.

...Commercial real estate that is less appealing to employers and retailers will take longer to fill up again with quality businesses, they said. Some of those properties probably won't recover at all... [...more...]

Rent vs. Buy :: GREAT TOOL!

...I’ve made a near-annual habit in this column of looking at the rent-versus-buy decision, and The Times has built an online calculator so that readers can make their own comparisons. The idea isn’t only to help potential buyers but also to figure out whether and where house prices are overvalued. That question is of obvious importance to homeowners and to the American economy... [...more...]