January 25th, 2009

Commercial Real Estate Giants go on Buying Spree

commercial Real estate giants and even medium size businesses are going on buying sprees to get as much properties as they can before the market rebounds by the end of this year till next year. The commercial property market is under strain as with the rest of the market due to heavy exposure to the sub-prime lending market collapse last year. The biggest investors, Freddie Mac and Fannie Maehave lost billions but remain the biggest people in the business. On the other side of the news, many small and medium sized firms have either reduced their staff or closed shop all together as they have little or no business due to the current slump. The construction industry has also trimmed down their workforce to compensate for losses due to lessening demand for new home construction.
The market still fluctuates from time to time but projections are still quite unreliable to this date, due to volatile financial markets that goes up and down. Many homeowners who face foreclosure are managing to make payments due to government funds sent to aid in hopes of stemming off the inevitable till they get back on their feet.

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