This is an HTML version of an article that ran in the July/August 2013 issue of Real Estate Forum. To see the original story, click here.
You could liken the recent economic unpleasantness to the iconic TV character Barney Fife, lone bullet buttoned away in his shirt pocket for safe-keeping. Buy that premise, and the recovery, slow as it might be, can be likened increasingly to Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. In short, guns are blazing.
To judge from the results of our new Investor Sentiment Survey, neither a slowly improving macro economy nor threats of increasing interest rates or muddle-headed government intervention can hold anyone back.
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John Salustri
John Salustri has covered the commercial real estate industry for nearly 25 years. He was the founding editor of GlobeSt.com, and is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
