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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 06 > Where hard times have just begun

Where hard times have just begun

Commercial real estate: Those who buy and sell office buildings, malls and warehouses are hardly in a festive mood, despite some encouraging signs in the job and housing markets.

By Terry Pristin / The Bulletin
September 6, 2009

As the commercial real estate market heated up earlier in the decade and lenders competed feverishly to issue ever-riskier mortgages, hundreds of bankers, investors, lawyers, brokers, appraisers, accountants and analysts flocked to an investors' conference in Florida each January to celebrate....

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