November 13, 2006
NEW YORK — Judging by recent profit figures, many of the biggest commercial real estate companies have been unscathed by the housing market slowdown.
A strong job market and increase in corporate outsourcing have bolstered real estate services revenues, enough to offset a slower pace of growth in investment sales that has set in since the booming recent years when offshore investors, real estate investment trusts and pension investors flooded the market.
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