Marshall Monteagle reports headline earnings per share of 6.4 US cents for the year ended September 2013 from 12.7c a year ago.

In the U.S., the stock market and, in particular, the housing market are inspiring cautious confidence in many MNCs.

The most movement and interest in the US commercial property market over the last couple of years has been the single-tenant side of the market.

The rebounding housing market has sparked a sharp rise in land prices, creating big profits for land investors but putting pressure on builders to further increase the price of new homes.

The United States has long held sway over the global economy and as such its welfare has had far reaching implications for the rest of the world. Cue the sub-prime mortgage crisis in 2007 which effectively crashed the US housing market, and of which the effects are still very much in evidence, particularly in America and parts of Europe.

The CoStar Commercial Repeat Sale Indices (CCRSI) provides the US with commercial real estate pricing through March 2012.

Based on the latest Repeat-Sale Analysis, it is the secondary markets and property types that outperform core assets as the recovery progresses

The US based Urban Land Institute, an industry trade group and think tank, recently surveyed developers, brokers, architects and other real estate professionals who predicted increasing values for all types of commercial property