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Investor Magazine October  2009  VOL. 2    

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Affordable Housing Agonies:

Stimulus helps, but can't fix scarcity of investors

Although affordable housing developers are making good use of the funds offered through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus money for the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program will likely run out in early 2010, and experts say new legislation is needed to spur investor interest in LIHTC and to prevent affordable housing projects from stalling across the nation.
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Staying Healthy:

Property owners plan for H1N1 outbreak

October marks the official beginning of flu season. This year, we’re dealing with seasonal flu and H1N1, also known as swine flu. Millions of Americans have been infected—coughing, sneezing and spreading germs everywhere—from the buttons in an elevator to the grocery cart handle. (The virus can survive for 72 hours on common surfaces such as faucets or door handles.) For commercial real estate owners and managers, this means their buildings, which house hundreds if not thousands of people, could be hot spots for the H1N1 virus.
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Briefs

Investment Notes

Total construction spending on an annual basis is expected to fall 12 percent this year and 4 percent in 2010, but spending in healthcare and infrastructure segments will increase, according to the Third Quarter U.S. Construction Briefing by IHS Global Insight’s Construction Service. Moreover, real total construction spending is expected to rebound with double-digit growth on an annual basis in 2011 and 2012, according to the IHS Global Insight forecast.

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Foreign Exchange

London and Paris have been named as Europe’s most business friendly cities, while Moscow can expect the biggest influx of companies over the next five years, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s 19th Annual European Cities Monitor report.

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