Real estate investment levels fell in the fourth quarter of 2007 to a third of the levels recorded in the first three quarters of the year, largely due to the turmoil in the financial sector. Scarcity of debt and a marked shift in investor sentiment towards property pushed the All-Property average yield up by 50 basis points in the final quarter of the year, according to CBRE's latest research report. This is the largest quarterly shift in the benchmark Prime Yield series since 1990.
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