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Bill Luttrell

Senior Locations Strategist, Werner Global Logistics, Werner Enterprises
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Senior Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Brian Corde

Managing Partner, Atlas Insight
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National Co-Leader, Global Location and Expansion Services, State and Local Tax, KPMG LLP
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Practice Leader, Location Strategies and Economic Development, Oxford Economics, Inc.
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Senior Economist, Moody's Analytics
Dean J. Uminski, CEcD

Principal, Crowe Horwath
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Managing Partner , Fisher & Phillips
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Senior Vice President, CBRE, Inc.
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Managing Director and Practice Leader, Site Selection & Business Incentive Advisory Services, Duff & Phelps, LLC
Jamie Lominack

Corporate Real Estate Manager, Michelin North America
John Morris

SIOR, Industrial Services Lead for the Americas, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
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Principal, Site Selection Group, LLC
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Senior Managing Director, Savills Studley
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Vice President & Partner, The CAI Global Group
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Consulting Manager, Global Business Consulting, Cushman & Wakefield
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Managing Director, True Partners Consulting LLC
Scott Kupperman

Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions
Scott Redabaugh

Managing Director, JLL
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CEO, Gray Construction
Thomas J. Stringer, Esq.

Managing Director & Practice Leader, Site Selection and Business Incentives Group, BDO USA
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Managing Principal, Foremost Quality Logistics

KPMG: Issues Monitor, Commercial Real Estate, October 2010

In its commercial real estate (CRE) Issues Monitor, KPMG finds that the global CRE is recovering, especially in the Americas.

KPMG

10/29/2010

In its Issues Monitor of the global commercial real estate (CRE) market, KPMG finds that the sector has been experiencing worldwide recovery since the second half of 2009. It is expected to climb to $300 billion by the end of 2010, a year-on-year increase of up to 50 percent.

Growth in the Americas has been swifter than expansions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific regions when considering improvements in CRE investments. Better global liquidity, credit conditions, and investor confidence has contributed to the rise.

Brazil, the United Kingdom (particularly London), and Poland were top CRE investment targets in 2010. Brazil was favored for its economic growth and burgeoning middle class, as well as infrastructure improvements in anticipation of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympics. The U.K.'s weak pound and price optimism attracted investors. And Poland, the largest economy in central Europe, lured funds with its growing tourism industry and increased infrastructure needs.