At home, canadian real estate investor Armin Martens faces a soft economy and a declining currency. But when he looks south of the border, the president and CEO of Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Artis Real Estate Investment Trust sees a commercial property market teeming with opportunity. "The U.S. is not just the largest economy in the world; it's not just the largest real estate market in the world; it's also the best-performing," says Martens, whose firm owns C$5.4 billion ($4.07 billion) worth of properties there and in Canada. "Today's outlook in the U.S. is very good." Publicly traded U.S. real estate investmenttrusts generated profitsof $13.4 billion in the third quarter of 2015, up13.1percentyear-over-year from $11.8 billion, according to the Washington-based National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
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机译：在国内，加拿大房地产投资者阿明·马滕斯（Armin Martens）面临着疲软的经济和货币贬值。但是，当他向边界以南望去时，位于曼尼托巴省的Artis房地产投资信托基金（Winiseg）的总裁兼首席执行官温尼伯（Winnipeg）看到商业地产市场充满了机遇。马滕斯说：“美国不仅是世界上最大的经济体；不仅是世界上最大的房地产市场；也是表现最好的国家。”马滕斯在美国拥有价值54亿加元（40.7亿美元）的房地产在加拿大。 “今天在美国的前景非常好。”总部位于华盛顿的美国全国房地产投资信托协会（National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts）的数据显示，2015年第三季度，公开交易的美国房地产投资信托产生了134亿美元的利润，较上年同期的118亿美元增长了13.1％。
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