In addition to the continuing problems in housing, this can't be good for anyone.
U.S. commercial real estate market values fell by more than 17 percent in the first half of the year, outstripping their decline for all of 2008, according to the Investment Property Databank (IPD).
Last year, values fell 12.2 percent, according to the report released Friday.
U.S. commercial real estate values in the first half of 2009 fell more steeply than UK values, said IPD, which analyzes commercial real estate data in global major markets.
