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Real estate investment trusts are a sound addition to a diversified portfolio. Learn what you need to know to invest.

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Gary Gordon submits: Mortgage delinquencies on residential real estate are accelerating, not decelerating. Similarly, an estimated $3.5 trillion in commercial loans are in danger of default, with no clear path to refinancing or modification to prevent massive foreclosures. Does this spell disaster for real estate investment trusts (REITs)? Surprisingly, the answer may be “no.” Complete Story »

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* Brookfield Realty seeks to raise up to $500 mln * Marathon Real Estate trust seeks up to $300 mln NEW YORK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Two real estate investmenttrusts filed for initial public offerings on Friday, bringingto eight the number of applications since early July by REITscreated by real estate companies seeking to take advantage ofthe distressed commercial property market. Brookfield Realty Capital Corp, will originate, invest in,and manage, a portfolio of commercial mortgage loans a

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With vacation season ending in the Northern Hemisphere, we’ll start to see analysis rooted in experience and common sense driving stock prices. Through much of the summer, trading has been dominated by “quant” funds that are prone to “garbage in, garbage out” decision systems. You can see it in the tick-by-tick movements and in Level 2 quotes. These quant funds typically use backward-looking data on the U.S. economy to drive trading decisions, rather than assess how the outlook for the global ec

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Last week, Robert Knakal (of Massey Knakal Realty Services ) posted this interesting analysis on his blog: REIT POWER LIKELY TO INCREASE IN 2010 Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are a form of ownership which have been around for quite a while but really began going public in earnest to delever their balance sheets in the early 1990s. And thrive they did in the mid to late 1990s. However, their dominance was somewhat muted in our most recent bull market in the mid- 2000s. I would

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