Balancing the Global Property Development Equation

The 2008 A.T. Kearney Real Estate Opportunity Index

In the United States and Western Europe, real estate has been making headlines for the wrong reasons. Even casual followers of current events are familiar with a new vocabulary: subprime disaster, liquidity crisis and foreclosure. The media provide constant coverage of the damage to leading economies and financial institutions from collapsing real estate values. But the global real estate industry offers far more than negative headline stories.