Property Worth: It's Tough To Tell
Posted on December 09, 2010 at 17:57 PM EST
Commercial real estate observers largely agree that property values have dropped an average of 40% from their peak in late 2007 and continue to bump along the bottom in most markets across the U.S. The long downturn in the early 1990s allowed savvy investors to pick off assets on the cheap in anticipation of outsize returns. But that's hardly the case today given poor fundamentals, ongoing distress and weak job creation. In fact, those problems