• Investors, flush with cash from having exited the stock market, are ramping up their commitments in commercial real estate, a worldwide study by Jones Land LaSalle found.
• Investments rose 10% in the second quarter of this year compared with the first quarter.
• Investments in the first half of the year are up 50% from the 2010 doldrums, though 9% off the pace they set in the first half of 2011.

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As investors move away from equities, more of them are pouring money into direct commercial property investments, Jones Lang LaSalle said in a new research report. ...