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It's a Wonderful Mortgage Loan System

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Richard Mize

It's a wonderful life, and Henry F. Potter would hate it.

Potter, the hoary, craggy, cranky, despicable and downright mean banker slumlord antagonist in "It's a Wonderful Life," made his fortune from the sweat of the working class.

Not just the literal perspiration off their brows, but the cold sweat that came in the middle of the night when latent buyer's remorse metastasized into late-term borrower's sorrow.

There are still some things to lament in the housing market. Minority home ownership lags behind the average. New kinds of predatory lending ruin lives.

INLAND: Study sees drop in office vacancies

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The office real estate market should continue to grow in 2004 and 2005, while the industrial real estate market should reach "historic" levels during the next two years, according to the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast produced by the USC Lusk Center.
The real estate business school predicts rents will rise, vacancies will fall and new office buildings will open in the next few years as demand keeps growing along with the two county
region.
The study predicts vacancy rates among industrial proper

Real Estate Forecast

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The future looks good for Southern California's office and industrial markets, according to a real estate study released today.

More businesses in Los Angeles and Orange counties are renting office space, and the growth is expected to increase through 2004, according to the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast released today by the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.

The Los Angeles County office market should begin to show a noticeable turnaround beginning early next year thanks to expansion in manufacturi

Clear Skies Ahead for Southern California Office and Industrial Markets

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At today’s USC Lusk Center Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast, Raphael Bostic, Ph.D., director of the Forecast, summarized the report’s findings for an audience of top real estate execs from the region. According to the forecast, released today by the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate (www.usc.edu/lusk), Southern California’s strong business performance, buoyed by economic diversity and continued growth in trade, bodes well for office and industrial markets through 2004.

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