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"Yes, there is value in real estate but you've got to be very picky. Risk-averse investors are seeking the highest-quality office towers, hotels and apartments as the gap widens, according to Nori Gerardo Lietz, partner and chief strategist for private real estate at Partners Group AG in San Francisco.

commercial real estate Seattle yields are near the highest level relative to Treasury bonds on record, a signal to some investors it's time to buy property. "Property is attractively priced versus the fixed-income market," said Ritson Ferguson, chief investment officer of ING Clarion Real Estate Securities in Radnor, Pennsylvania, which manages about $12 billion. That spread is near the record 539 basis points in the first quarter of 2009, when the U.S. Brokers legally can represent buyer or sellers and sometimes they represent both in deals and homes for sale Seattle.

That was 429 basis points, or 4.29 percentage points, higher than the yield on 10-year government bonds as of June 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A new law will require brokers in New York state to disclose to apartment buyers and sellers exactly who they represent in transactions, a long misunderstood issue in residential sales.

Yes, classified advertising has migrated to the web in the form of real estate search, but the sell side of real estate may be web's biggest relative laggard.

was mired in the worst of the financial crisis and property prices sank. The real estate Seattle industry is one of the industries prime to grow the online market share. The deals were still 85 percent below the peak of $135.7 billion in the second quarter of 2007, Real Capital data show which includes data for the Seattle Real Estate market.

David Paterson on Monday, sheds light on a sometimes thorny and often confusing relationship. The spread shrank to less than 80 basis points, the narrowest in 16 years, when commercial real estate prices peaked in 2007. Some homes for sale Seattle buyers already are acquiring buildings at lower cap rates, which move inversely to price. If you pay up for existing leases, it's very hard to manage your way out of that situation."

There are several reasons why technology adoption has lagged the Real Estate Seattle brokerage industry. Bonds Signals Time to Buy Property

Treasury bonds yesterday completed the biggest monthly rally since the end of 2008 amid signs economic growth is faltering, with the benchmark 10-year note yielding 2.47 percent. Developing technology based differentiation is low on the list of priorities because brokers and agents are not technologists, and the "off the rack" options don't fit the needs of the real estate community anyway. Seattle Real Estate Future

In Manhattan, RXR Realty LLC bought a stake in 340 Madison Ave., a 22-story office building, at a cap rate of 6 percent, according to New York-based Real Capital. In New York, brokers say, practices can vary from borough to borough, neighborhood to neighborhood, broker toReal Estate Seattle broker and from deal to deal. Starting in January, real-estate brokers will be required to provide buyers and sellers of co-op and condominiums with written disclosure forms outlining the nature of their relationship-and their fiduciary responsibilities, if any-before any apartments are shown.

The rate declined in the second quarter as transactions began to increase, he said.

Social networking allows the real estate Seattle brokerage to tap into their contacts and the contacts of their agents and clients. Property values have dropped more than 40 percent since the October 2007 top of the market, according to Moody's Investors Service.

sales of office, retail, industrial, apartment and hotel properties totaled $20.7 billion in the second quarter, according to Real Capital. "The data indicate that real estate is poised for a rebound," said Gerardo Lietz, who advises pension funds on property investments.

That was up 86 percent from $11.1 billion a year earlier.

Real Estate Seattle Rebound U.S. For much of the past two decades, institutional real estate was valued at about a 9 percent cap rate, according to Jeffrey D. Corl, managing director for distressed real estate investments at Siguler Guff & Co., a New York-based private- equity firm. The office tower sold at a cap rate of about 7 percent, said Goodwin Gaw, the developer who helped broker on the deal. Investors compare property yields with Treasuries to determine how much potential profit real estate offers relative to an investment that's considered low-risk. So as a broker, that's where you spend your money. Capitalization rates, a measure of real estate yields, averaged 7.22 percent in the second quarter, based on an index calculated by the National Council of Real Estate Seattle Investment Fiduciaries. properties including real estate Seattle with a market value of $234.5 billion. in one of the largest transactions in the second quarter, according to Real Capital Analytics Inc., a property research firm. "It's questionable how much growth you're going to get," said James S. The gap's widening follows a plunge in bond yields after the global financial crisis spurred a flight to safety and the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to a record low for Real Estate Seattle and the entire nation. The organization's measure, which it began publishing in 1982, represents current yield before any price appreciation. U.S. "For properties that have high occupancy, that's where you really have seen the price appreciation and cap rates falling." For buildings with low occupancy rates, "there is very little interest," he said.

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