Real Estate Flipping: Grow Rich Buying and Selling Property The Commercial Leading Indicator for Brokerage Activity,* a leading indicator for the commercial real estate market, shows an improvement in commercial sectors will continue into 2007, according to the National Association of Realtors®. During the second quarter, the Commercial Leading Indicator for Brokerage Activity was at an index of 119.4, up 0.4 percent from a reading of 118.9 in the first quarter. The index is 2.5 percent above the second quarter of 2005 when it stood at 116.5. The second quarter index was the fifth straight quarter of growth.

The indicator suggests a 2.5 percent increase in leasing and sales activity for commercial real estate practitioners in the fourth quarter in comparison with the same period in 2005. he 13 series in the index include industrial production, the REIT (real estate investment trust) price index, NCREIF (National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries) total return, personal income minus transfer payments, jobs in financial activities, jobs in professional business service, jobs in temporary help, jobs in retail trade, jobs in wholesale trade, initial claims for unemployment insurance, manufacturers’ durable goods shipment, wholesale merchant sales, and retail sales and food service.

click here for article

search for : , , , , , , ,