In an article titled, "Akerman survey: Overwhelming majority of real estate execs confident in CRE market today," REJournal.com reported that 70% of top real estate chief executive officers, chief operating officers and other industry executives had a more optimistic outlook about the 2014 CRE market than they had in 2013. Their increasing confidence is due in large part to the improved economy. As the Akerman Real Estate Industry Outlook Survey shows, a total of 60 percent of executive believe that job creation in 2014 will either be marginally or significantly stronger than in 2013. The story was also published on REJBlogs.