Predicting a Super Bowl winner, the commercial real estate way

It’s often been said there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Well, we’ve got news for you. There’s also more than one way to predict a Super Bowl champ.

And Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL), an investment management firm specializing in real estate, has found an unusual formula that, while not perfect, has proved sufficiently reliable for the firm ever so boldly to step out on a limb and make a prognostication about whether the Baltimore Ravens or the San Francisco 49ers will…