In This Issue:

Bringing Non-U.S. Capital Into (and Back Out of) U.S. Real Estate; A Wider Play of Shale: A Hydraulic Fracturing Primer; California Clears Way for Pollution Clean-Up with AB 440; and Which Way is the Exit? Liquidity and Non-Traded REITs.

Excerpt from Bringing Non-U.S. Capital Into (and Back Out of) U.S. Real Estate -

On the heels of a thawing real estate transactional market in the United States, many investment managers and real estate owners (including many of the public REITs) are experiencing a corresponding uptick in the availability of institutional capital for this asset class. Not surprisingly, the capital seems to be following the deals.