Article: REAL ESTATE TOUTED AS NEXT PLACE TO INVEST AFTER CRASH.(Business)

Byline: Larry Birger Knight-Ridder

With the stock market battered and inflation threatening to return, some real estate experts say it's time to take a good look at commercial property as a more stable and potentially profitable investment.

At the same time, they caution, a glut of office buildings, shopping malls and hotels, plus negative provisions from tax reform, doesn't make real estate the quick-profit panacea that it was in the 1970s.

"Clearly, shifting your portfolio out of real estate into financial assets in 1981-82 was the smart move," trumpets a recent publication of consultant Robert F. Stanger & Co. "But the evidence is mounting ...

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