U.S. Top Spot for Global Real Estate Investors in Second Quarter ...

August 8, 2011
By Suzann D. Silverman, Editor-in-Chief

How the nation?s credit downgrade may impact the commercial real estate market remains to be seen, but in the second quarter, at least, the United States led the world in commercial-property trades. According to a new report from Real Capital Analytics Inc., global transaction volume totaled $165.3 billion, and the United States brought in more than $30 billion of that, rising 147 percent over the same quarter of 2010, versus a global increase of 36 percent.

Overall, transactions in the Americas increased by 115 percent, reaching $55.6 billion, with growth occurring across property sectors and particularly marked by merger-and-acquisition deals in the United States and Canada. Brazil finished the first half on a positive note, but that was thanks to rampant sales in the first quarter, as its pace of property trades fell 32 percent in the second quarter. Prices across the Americas were stable to up, with a strong preference indicated for major markets, the study found. U.S. cap rates remained flat throughout the first half, with the exception of industrial and suburban office properties. Yields for prime assets were ?significantly lower? than average in the United States, and stable to slightly lower across the Americas overall.

The Asia-Pacific region also fared well, with $67.2 billion in second-quarter sales, largely thanks to foreign attraction to Australian property markets, as well as strong performance in Singapore and South Korea. Hong Kong recovered but ended the year flat, while Japan saw a sharp drop in investor interest. Only India, Taiwan and New Zealand, however, seem to be losing investment momentum, the report noted. In China, the focus shifted from primary to secondary and tertiary markets, with interest in land moderating while sales of office and retail properties nearly doubled in the first half. Yields varied widely across the region, from Australia?s 8.3 percent in the second quarter to Hong Kong?s 3 percent average (with 36 significant assets trading at 3.5 percent or lower in the first half, the report noted).

The EMEA market stalled after six strong consecutive quarters, reaching $42.5 billion in significant property sales and a 10 percent growth rate over the second quarter of 2010. Germany and the Nordic countries turned in strong performance (with Germany seeing 65 percent year-over-year growth), while activity in the United Kingdom fell by 25 percent and France, 20 percent. Those decreases were largely due to secondary-market performance, as both London and Paris saw slower but still-positive growth. Eastern European was stable, with the exception of Russia, which experienced a 34 percent drop in activity. Middle Eastern performance was marked by decreases in Israel and the United Arab Emirates in the first half. Cap rates in Western Europe and the United Kingdom were 6.6 to 6.7 percent in the second quarter.

The report also tracked the top buyers from 2007 and found the least change in the Asia-Pacific region, where 82 of the top 100 buyers have purchased at least one property since January 2010. The United States similarly saw 81 of its top buyers still active, while Europe?s list found 60 formerly active buyers still in the mix. Among the top 20, Asia has seen the loss of just one buyer, Sino Land Co., while the United States has lost five (Lehman Brothers, GE Capital, Broadway Partners, Centro Properties and Dubai World) and Europe has seen 11 disappear, many of them either liquidated companies or those based in problem-ridden countries.

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Alleged Marilyn Monroe sex film gets no buyers

EDS NOTE NUDITY - In this picture taken July 20, 2011, Spain's memorabilia collector Mikel Barsa speaks on the phone, during an interview with The Associated Press, beside images taken from an allegedly newly discovered 8-mm stag film, purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The protectors of Marilyn Monroe's estate and image have lawyers ready to sue if Barsa goes ahead with his plan to sell the film he says shows the underaged star. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

EDS NOTE NUDITY - In this picture taken July 20, 2011, Spain's memorabilia collector Mikel Barsa speaks on the phone, during an interview with The Associated Press, beside images taken from an allegedly newly discovered 8-mm stag film, purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The protectors of Marilyn Monroe's estate and image have lawyers ready to sue if Barsa goes ahead with his plan to sell the film he says shows the underaged star. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

EDS NOTE NUDITY - In this picture taken July 20, 2011, Spain's memorabilia collector Mikel Barsa smiles during an interview with The Associated Press beside images taken from an allegedly newly discovered 8-mm stag film, purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The protectors of Marilyn Monroe's estate and image have lawyers ready to sue if Barsa goes ahead with his plan to sell the film he says shows the underaged star. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this picture taken July 20, 2011, Spain's memorabilia collector Mikel Barsa during an interview with The Associated Press in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Barsa plans to auction an allegedly newly discovered 8-mm stag film, purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker. The protectors of Marilyn Monroe's estate and image have lawyers ready to sue if Barsa goes ahead with his plan to sell the film he says shows the underaged star. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

EDS NOTE NUDITY - In this photo taken July 20, 2011, images taken from an allegedly newly discovered 8-mm stag film, purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker, are shown by Spain's memorabilia collector Mikel Barsa in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The protectors of Marilyn Monroe's estate and image have lawyers ready to sue if Barsa goes ahead with his plan to sell the film he says shows the underaged star. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

(AP) ? There were no buyers Sunday at the auction of a 1940s stag film that an events promoter claims shows a young Marilyn Monroe having sex before she became a movie star.

The auction was a flop. Nobody came forward willing to pay Mikel Barsa's starting price of 2 million Argentine pesos, about $480,000.

Barsa said it didn't help matters that a spokeswoman for Monroe's estate was quoted in an Associated Press interview calling the whole thing a fraud.

"It doesn't surprise me. The latest statements of Nancy Carlson didn't do anything good for all this," Barsa said, referring to the spokeswoman for a company in charge of protecting Monroe's image and estate.

Barsa said he was still negotiating with an unidentified buyer from Denver whom he said was offering much less than a fair price. But he also said his lawyers were reviewing the matter now that Monroe's protectors warned they would sue him if the sale went through.

Barsa claimed before the auction that the scratchy, black-and-white, six-minute 8-mm film shows the young actress, known then as Norma Jeane Baker, around 1946 or 1947 when she was poor and desperate to break into show business.

Experts on Monroe's life, however, said it's highly unlikely that the smiling young blonde in the film is her.

Comparing the film with known Monroe images leaves ample room for doubt. And several documents Barsa said proved his argument ? a letter from the American Film Institute and what looks like a declassified FBI file that mentions a 1965 attempt to sell an alleged Marilyn Monroe sex film ? are inconclusive.

Monroe's image and estate is protected by the brand development and licensing company Authentic Brands Group. Its spokeswoman, Carlson, said a sale of the film would invite legal action for "perpetrating a fraud on the public, violating the Monroe estate's exclusive rights to her image and other claims of intellectual property infringement."

"To me personally, it doesn't even resemble her," Carlson said.

Associated Press

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AIG to sue BofA over mortgage bonds: report (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? U.S. insurance giant American International Group (AIG.N) is planning to sue Bank of America (BAC.N) to recover more than $10 billion in losses on $28 billion of investment in mortgage-backed securities, the New York Times said citing three people with knowledge of the complaint.

AIG's move adds to the surge of investors seeking compensation for the troubled mortgages that led to the financial crisis, the Times said.

The complaint claims that Bank of America along with its units Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Financial misrepresented the quality of the mortgages placed in securities and sold to investors, the newspaper reported.

Bank of America is likely to dispute AIG's claims in the suit, which is expected to be filed on Monday in New York State Supreme Court, the paper said.

Bank of America spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told NY Times that the mortgage securities disclosures were robust enough for sophisticated investors. He said many of the loans lost value because housing fell.

"Now you have a lot of investors and lawyers who are seeking to recoup the losses from an economic downturn," Di Rita told the paper. The bank has not yet seen AIG's suit, NY Times said.

An AIG spokesman declined to comment to the paper. Bank of America and AIG could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters.

(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)

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Getting Car Insurance for the First Time | 4autoinsurancequote

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