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Hearty Institutional Appetite for Real Estate Predicted for Second Half of 2003

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Pension funds, insurance companies and opportunity funds are expected to increase their investments in real estate — targeting equity investments and mezzanine debt — in the second half of 2003. That’s the word from Stan Ross, chairman of the board of the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate.

“While foreign investment in U.S. properties could decline in the second half, institutional players will step up their investments as they continue to diversify their portfolios and meet allocation guidelines,” he said.

Study: Strong Economy Raises Homeownership Rates

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LOS ANGELES - Higher household incomes, better employment opportunities and demographic changes explain nearly all of the 3.5 percent increase in the overall homeownership rate reported by the Federal Reserve data during the 1990s, according to a study by the Research Institute for Housing
America titled "Causes of the Increase in Homeownership in the 1990s: A Retrospective View," by professors Stuart Rosenthal of Syracuse University and Stuart Gabriel of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.

The research focused on factors that influence the homeowner

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