links for 2009-02-28

Reita provides authoritative information on property investment, with a particular focus on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

Investors should also be aware that commercial property values are likely to fall further. Rics has warned that the sector is still only halfway through the correction, and that values could fall another 25 per cent in the next two years.

Borrowers are being urged to lock into longer-term fixed-rate mortgages in the next few months, as access to fresh capital spurs banks to launch some of the best rates seen in years

Could the FTSE 100 fall to 2,500 points? There are, of course, many reasons for thinking the FTSE 100 will fall nowhere near 2,500. One is valuation. Stocks are cheap and a lot of the bad news is already priced in. But just because stocks are cheap does not mean they cannot fall further. Markets always overshoot on the way up and down.