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Trends in 2008

Monday, April 14, 2008
“Timberland ownership is still only a minute proportion of the total financial market asset base, but ownership is rapidly moving from regional to global; and transaction prices continue to defy gravity.” ….

A SQUARE :: 14Apr08 Trends in 2008
Category Timberland
Faculty Dennis Neilson
Expertise Timberlands
Author Sona Blessing
Faculty Name
The challenge facing the investment timberland industry in 2008 is a lack of “affordable” properties on the market. The excess liquidity searching timberland deals has driven up timberland prices by twice or thrice as much over the last several years.
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[17Jun09] [Timberland] Case Study Investing in Brazil
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[20May09] [Timberland] Case Study: Investing in China
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[15Apr09] [Timberland] "Go ahead - lower the discount rate, but be real with biological inputs"„
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[04Feb09] [Timberland] Case Study: Timberland Investing in Panama
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[19Nov08] [Timberland] A SQUARE Timber Special II
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[03Nov08] [Timberland] In tact return drivers
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[04Sep08] [Timberland] US Tax Treatment of International Forestland Investment
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[06Feb08] [Timberland] Leading trends in timber investing
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[05Nov07] [Timberland] Timber and Forestry ETF
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[25Sep07] [Timberland] “Overseas” investment in timberlands - expertise
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[06Aug07] [Timberland] Forest Legacy Investments, LLC
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[16Jul07] [Timberland] Unusual, Short Term Investment "Option"
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[22May07] [Timberland] Expertise on how forests can be managed to reap returns and still be conserved
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[05Mar07] [Timberland] Thomas Adams Q & A
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[29Jan07] [Timberland] Tim Corriero Q & A
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