A Record Year for Adaptive Reuse

More than 20,000 units in older office and other commercial buildings will be converted to apartments this year, reported RentCafe, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Commercial Real Estate Prices Rise Again

Real Capital Analytics, New York, reported all four major commercial real estate types posted double-digit annual price growth in August.

Personnel News Oct. 16 2021

M&T Realty Capital Corp., Baltimore, appointed Donna Falzarano as a Managing Director in its Florham Park, N.J. office.

CREF Policy Update Oct. 14, 2021

Commercial and multifamily developments and activities from MBA relevant to your business and our industry.

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“This is a good sign for the office market and the economy in general, though it still will require a lot of activity and time to materially reduce the large volume of sublease space that has been put on the market during the pandemic.”
–Julie Whelan, CBRE Global Head of Occupier Research, saying office space offered for sublease registered its first monthly decline in August since the pandemic started.

ESG and its Impacts on CRE

Environmental, Social and Governance criteria is an investment strategy focused on making the world a better place. This is not a new idea; versions of sustainable investing trends have emerged in the past. But the explosive growth and rapidly increasing capital allocation toward “ESG” friendly assets is unprecedented.

CMBS Delinquency Rate Shrinks, Cumulative Default Rate Increases

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate continues to shrink, but the cumulative loan default rate increased slightly in first-half 2021, according to two new reports from S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings.