The reports are up one week and down the next. Sayings like "The next shoe to drop" and "The new crisis" have been used sporadically to describe the new commercial real estate market. Such subjective descriptors make it difficult to gauge where the market truly is and where it is heading.

Depending on if the index you are following takes into account actual transactions or transactions in the works, you will have a different reading about the health of commercial real estate. While cities such as Manhattan and Washington D.C. have seen significant price increases recently, they were also two of the cities with the most ravaged commercial real estate markets. Overall, U.S. commercial property is still hurting. However, without another significant economic dip, there is only one direction for commercial property values to head.

The reports are up one week and down the next. Sayings like "The next shoe to drop" and "The new crisis" have been used sporadically to describe the new commercial real estate market. Such subjective descriptors make it difficult to gauge where the market truly is and where it is heading.

Depending on if the index you are following takes into account actual transactions or transactions in the works, you will have a different reading about the health of commercial real estate. While cities such as Manhattan and Washington D.C. have seen significant price increases recently, they were also two of the cities with the most ravaged commercial real estate markets. Overall, U.S. commercial property is still hurting. However, without another significant economic dip, there is only one direction for commercial property values to head.

We have all heard about how Chinese households out save us, they are notorious for their disciplined savings practices. Boasting a household savings rate of between 30 and 40 percent, the Chinese have capital, but because of strict regulations, they have only a few dim options for investing their savings.

Financial regulations in China require its people to invest either in property or domestic stocks. The third legal option is to plunge their money into a savings account. But, with returns coming in lower than the rate of inflation, this practice cannot be seen as an investment.