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National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2003 Chapman & Valley	Have We Hit Bottom? If, indeed, the U.S. is in the early stages of a long anticipated rebound, there were no signs of it in the commercial real estate industry in the first half. The most obvious trends were rising vacancies, falling rents and mounting loan delinquencies.
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National Real Estate Investor December 22, 2003	Torto Wheaton, Moody's Partner to Produce New Real Estate Credit Risk Software Moody's Investors Service and Torto Wheaton Research will team up to develop software analyzing the risk of commercial mortgage whole loan portfolios. The software will help banks, life insurance companies and other holders of whole loans analyze credit risks.
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