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USC Lusk Center Report Says Mexico Must Move Quickly to Create Finance System so More Homes Can Be Built

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LOS ANGELES -- Mexico will have to move quickly in developing a strong housing finance system if it is to meet President Fox’s ambitious goal of doubling the country’s housing production by 2006, according to a report recently published in Mortgage Banking magazine.

“Mexico is making progress in creating the infrastructure to make affordable mortgage credit available to its growing middle class,” said report co-author David Dale-Johnson, Ph.D. of the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate (www.usc.edu/lusk).

USC Lusk Center’s Stan Ross Says Institutional Investors Will Increase Real Estate Investment

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Los Angeles – Lured by attractive returns and more transparent reporting, opportunity funds, pension funds and insurance firms will increase their investments in real estate the second half of 2003, targeting equity plays and mezzanine debt, according to Stan Ross, chairman of the board of the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate (www.usc.edu/lusk).

“While foreign investment in U.S.

Lusk Center Convenes Leading Real Estate Scholars at Global Academic Conference

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USC Lusk Professors
The Lusk Center for Real Estate and the Cracow Real Estate Institute partnered to convene the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association’s (AREUEA) 15th Annual International Conference in Cracow, Poland June 15-17, 2003. Over 100 participants attended the conference hosted at Jagiellonian University – one of the oldest universities in Central Europe.