Expectations & Market Realities in Real Estate: 2009Market Aftershocks and the Road to Recovery, is now available. Published by RERC, Principal Real Estate Investors, and Torto Wheaton Research, the report addresses how the global capital market turmoil and the economic recession have significantly altered the investment climate for commercial real estate. The 80+ page report addresses how TARP is propping up the U.S. banking system in an attempt to restore liquidity to the credit market and confidence in the economy, discusses how property fundamentals have deteriorated in 2008 and are expected to continue in 2009, and reminds readers that the financial market challenges also contain opportunities for those with a long-term investment horizon.