estate next year says kenneth rosen the chairman of the fisher center for real estate and urban economics at the university of california berkeleythis year commercial real estate attracted some 500 billion in investment across the board he said citing statistics from real capital analyticssupporters of the change from within the real estate industry say it removes the disadvantages of investing in commercial real estate compared with other types of investments and helps the american real estate market compete with foreign real estate marketsthe curtailment of taxfree reit spinoffs was intended to partly fill the gap in lost revenue as a result of the foreign investor tax changes lawyers saidthe bill contains much more good news than bad news for reits and the real estate industry mr glazer said