NEW YORK CITY-There were no surprises this morning at the unveiling of the 2005 edition of Emerging Trends in Real Estate, only verification of the trends we’ve been watching for at least a year now. The study, produced jointly by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, was previewed at ULI’s Fall Meeting.

Speaker Stephen Blank, of the institute, pointed to some of the key points of the study, which included the fact that while it is a good time to sell non-strategic assets, such sales will lead to the question of where to re-invest.

He noted that while investments are hot in what he termed the Big Four–Washington, DC; Southern California; South Florida; and New York City, “There is a growing concern about investing in a lot of other markets,” he said, noting that questions arise about “in-migration, job growth and exit strategies,” in those secondary locales.

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