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10 Stocks That Show the Real Estate Boom Has Arrived (Update2)

Written by: Frank Byrt 03/06/12 - 1:31 PM EST
Tickers in this article: ACC HME UDR SPG AVB BXP ESS PLD HCN PSA
(Story updated to add that Health Care REIT raised $1.1 billion in a secondary share offering.)

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- The U.S. real estate market is in two worlds, with residential housing in the dumps and not yet worthy of consideration for investing. But commercial real estate, in the form of real estate investment trusts (REITs), is prospering.

For example, demand for rental apartments is booming because an uptick in employment has people relocating to areas with job opportunities. While at the same time, home ownership is at 12-year lows and not seen growing significantly anytime soon, and that boosts the earnings outlook for apartment-owning REITs.

And demand for commercial real estate, which includes shopping malls, office buildings and storage facilities, is showing steady growth, aided by years of almost no new construction, limiting supply, while a strengthening economy increases demand.

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