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cloverWe all get stuck occasionally. Stuck in the past, stuck with excess inventory, stuck on markets and marketing concepts that don't work anymore.

It may sound like a blinding flash of the obvious, but our industry is dependent on confidence, which has deeply eroded in the past few years. Buyers need to venture forth with confidence; financiers need to be confident in the market for product they are financing, and developers and the entire supporting cast have to be assured that both market and finance are in place in order to commit their balance sheet and reputation on a venture.


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claudia-sign-croppedAs we enter 2010, a sense of stability and predictability--a new normal--is returning to the Central America real estate sector.

One of the most telling aspects of this new normal is the retreat of the speculator buying for quick re-sale profit. The quick flip speculator has been replaced by a new type of international real estate investor--a “post crisis” investor--with a different mindset and goals.


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david goldsmith 100 x 126Although capital markets are virtually shut down and business slow, now is the time for you and your real estate colleagues to prepare for the day when money starts to flow again. Yes, today’s conditions may seem unlike previous cycles, making it difficult to form a reasonable course. Yet remaining inert will put you in an unfavorable position when business starts to pick up.


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There was a very large conference held in San Francisco a few weeks ago. Its attendees filled the hotels, swarmed the Moscone Convention Center, lined up to eat in the restaurants, and frequented the downtown shopping district's boutique retailers. San Francisco was packed with attendees of the WWDC 10, dubbed "The Center of the App Universe", from around the world who gathered to exchange ideas on making up software for your IPhone and IPad ...
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According to Bloomberg news , Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has been buying up some of the highest quality properties in London, as the Persian Gulf country takes advantage of lower prices and the pound's weakness to invest its gas wealth.


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