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By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: Apparently you can’t have an earnings call these days without bemoaning the economy and blaming the government – which deserves to be criticized for its inability to govern. But I question the impact the legislative stalemate is having on the economy.

By Dan Vittone, SIOR, Principal, Capital Markets Group, Avison Young: Canada continues to be one of the most active foreign investors in U.S. commercial real estate assets. Pension funds north of the border have dispensed about $9 billion into U.S. commercial real estate over the past three years, a total investment that exceeds its nearest competitor country by 300 percent.

(Japan property market: annual headline returns)   By Max Arkey The total return for Japanese real estate investments was 3.9 percent in the year through the third quarter of 2012, according to the latest figures from IPD Japan. This total return combined an income return of 5.2 percent with a capital return of minus 1.3 percent. Compared to a year earlier, the year-over-year total return has improved by 0.6 percentage points. Income return is slightly down, but the rate at which capital values are falling has slowed from minus 1.9 percent a year ago. In the year to September, apartments…

Now that the March 1 sequestration deadline has come and gone without any solution to the budget crisis, John Guinee, a REIT analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, is expecting significant rent cuts by major Washington, D.C., office players.

What you see isn’t always what you get, and the most recent lodging construction spending figures reflect that notion.

REITs have grown increasingly competitive and powerful because of their strong management and ability to raise alsmost limitless capital. This list examines the most active REITs of 2013.

Jack Kern and Mike Ratliff take a detailed look at the REIT industry and what 2013 will look like when it comes to investment, M&As and development activity.

Reviving troubled assets calls for custom-tailored strategies.