Reply To: Commercial Real Estate and QE1

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jmherbener
Participant

Commercial Real Estate hit bottom in March 2011:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-23/u-s-commercial-real-estate-prices-decline-to-post-crash-low-moody-s-says.html

Most of QE1 took place from late 2008 to March 2009, the entire program was finished by March 2010:

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/federal-reserve/qe1-financial-crisis-timeline.aspx

Aside from this problem of timing, the money was not spent to prop up commercial real estate.