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Real Estate/Development

Sep. 16, 2003

Institutional Investors Hungry for New Apartment Deals Despite Interest-Rate Hike, Record-Low Caps

BY HOOMAN GHAFFARI Since 2001, the Southern California apartment market has witnessed a major divergence between prices and the fundamentals that support them, prodding many economists and real estate gurus to predict that the market would, at the first signs of an interest-rate hike, enter meltdown mode.

BY HOOMAN GHAFFARI

Since 2001, the Southern California apartment market has witnessed a major divergence between prices and the fundamentals that support them, prodding many economists and real estate gurus to predict that the market would, at the first signs of an interest-rate hike, enter meltdown mode.

Yet even with a 130-basis-point jump in lending rates, those predictions of doom do not appear to be taking shape. Instead, investors of many stripes, esp...

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