| Global commercial property investments are set to exceed $440 billion this year, the highest since 2007, with the Americas likely to post 60 percent growth partly on an easing debt situation in the United States, Jones Lang LaSalle said. In the first quarter of this year, volumes grew 44 percent to $94 billion from the same period last year, according to the property services firm.
Brazil became the fifth most active investment market in the first quarter, helping the BRIC group (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) of emerging markets account for 13 percent of global volumes in the first quarter, up from 2 percent in 2007, it said..............................................Full Article: Source
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