Moody's: Canadian Retail RE Falls Short

Canada's commercial real estate property sectors have continued to fare better than their U.S. counterparts with one exception, according to a new Moody's Investors Service report.The exception is the retail segment, which has a composite score of 84 in the United States compared with 78 for Canada, according to Moody's. The rating agency assesses the strength of the real estate markets that underlie commercial mortgage-backed securities on a scale of 0 (weak) to 100 (strong). Moody's can be found on the Web at http://www.moodys.com.

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