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BRINGING INVESTORS BACK TO MARKET

COLLEGE STATION (Real Estate Center) - Talking about the economic crisis before a Houston audience of around 1,000 last Thursday (October 16, 2008), Dr. Mark Dotzour listed eight factors that would bring investors back into the market.

According to the Real Estate Center's chief economist, investors will return when:

1. they can believe bond ratings agencies again;


2. they can believe corporate accounting again;


3. they think the recession is nearing an end;


4. they think house prices are stabilizing nationally;


5. they regain confidence in the value of a contract and that the federal government will not change the terms of mortgages the investors may have invested in;


6. there is clarity regarding what the income tax rates and capital gains taxes will be in 2009 and beyond;


7. they have sorted out the massive government intervention and determined the unintended consequences; and


8. the return on short-term cash gets so low that corporate dividends and corporate bond interest become attractive again.

Dotzour was speaking at the national convention for Commercial Real Estate Women.

~Jennifer Reese