The doctors remain hopeful. A series of operations is having the desired result, and the patient, which has now has been taken off the drip, is becoming ever more active and his appetite is improving. The threat of complications is fading. But The insatiable appetite which put him in hospital in the first place will probably not return – At least as long as he remembers the consequences of his former gluttonyEmil Górecki, Mladen PetrovThis summer Jones Lang LaSalle predicted that the global volume of investment transactions for the year would grow by 40-50 pct compared to 2009. In its summary of the first half of the year, the consultancy revealed that on the commercial property market investors spent USD 132 bln – USD 56 bln more than in H1 2009 – and a growth of over 45 pct. Arthur de Haast, the head of international investment at Jones Lang LaSalle, believes that the growth might not be as high in H2 2010 because of certain economic factors and due diligence proce