This article recently appeared in the financial section of Yahoo and discusses the various classes of real estate investment and their timeliness with regard to investment. Please take note of the highlighted area about commercial property and land. It's about 3 pages in. Thanks  

If you don’t watch Bill Moyer’s Journal program on PBS you should start. As our news channels all become more “Foxified” it is difficult to find good investigative reporting so when we find the real thing we should all be telling our friends and colleagues.

In a recent program Bill interview Bill Donalson, Former SEC Chairman, and Robert Kuttner a veteran economic journalist who recently testified for the House Committee on Financial Services. As the title of the program might insinuate, the stock market is an evolving colossus and we should all be aware of how recent changes have shifted risk from the big institution (brokerage firms and Corporations) to tiny institutions (you and me)   Full Article

A news program that is worthy of our time is Frontline, aired on most PBS channels. Recently Frontline did an in depth interview the John Bogle , founder of the Vanguard Group, the largest Mutual Fund in the world. John describes in the interview why he wrote the book, 'Battling for the Soul of Capitalism'. He goes on to describe how large brokerage firms are putting the small investor in harms way by taking in TRILLIONS of dollars in unnecessary fees.   Full Article