Cushman & Wakefield today released its bi-monthly Economic Pulse report, which analyzes the current economic conditions in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. In particular, the report looks at how regional inflation and deflation affects commercial real estate investments in the different continents. According to the report, the U.S. is not experiencing a recovery in the commercial market and will be unlikely to show an uptick in activity until later this year or early in 2010. TRD [more]

The most trusted name in New York City residential real estate
statistics, Jonathan Miller, is finally releasing his long-awaited
quarterly rental report. Prudential Douglas Elliman is slated to publish its first-ever
quarterly Manhattan rental market overview next Thursday. The report
will be prepared by Miller, who is the president and CEO of Miller
Samuel. Miller has authored Elliman’s quarterly reports for real estate sales
in Manhattan since 1994. Miller also produces Elliman’s quarterly
reports for Brooklyn, Long Island and Queens and the Hamptons/North
Fork, and has emerged as an oft-quoted source for residential market
data. The city’s other major brokerage firms, including the Corcoran Group,
Halstead Property and Brown Harris Stevens, also release quarterly
market reports on residential sales. But until now, the rentals market has been a much more secretive business. [more]