Morgan Stanley Property Fund faces $5.4 Billion loss

[The Village Idiot]

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Morgan Stanley has told investors in its $8.8 billion real-estate fund that it may lose nearly two-thirds of its money from bum property investments, according to fund documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

That would likely make it the biggest dollar loss—$5.4 billion—in the history of private-equity real-estate investing.

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[zeitgeist]

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Morgan Stanley has told investors in its $8.8 billion real-estate fund that it may lose nearly two-thirds of its money from bum property investments, according to fund documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

That would likely make it the biggest dollar loss—$5.4 billion—in the history of private-equity real-estate investing.

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I have been reading about the coming meltdown in commercial real estate for about a year now.   Could the effects of this create the W dip?  It very well could. 

In the early eighties ( very early ) I had a friend who gave all his 'investment' money to a broker who promised amazing returns in the commercial development market in Arizona of strip malls.  As I recall my friend was Amazed at his returns ( or lack there of).  To this day I think he still shudders at the mention of the word REIT. 

[The Village Idiot]

I bet! They were "sure things" at the time, huh?