Ask 1,000 real estate industry players what 2014 will bring, and this is what they will tell you:

•                2014 will be a year of continuing recovery for U.S. real estate.

•                The key threat to the industry’s comeback is the timing and size of interest rate increases.

•                Industrial will be the top performing property sector in 2014, with warehousing expected to be a particularly strong subsector.

•                Investors, searching for increased yield, will likely commit more dollars to secondary markets, as opportunities in core markets become harder to find and more expensive.

•                San Francisco, for the second consecutive year, was ranked the top U.S. market, based on a thriving economy and forecasted job growth of 2 percent.

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