Category: News and Trends

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

“Steady as she goes” could be the multifamily sector’s mantra. Analysts report stable apartment vacancy and rent growth rates in the first quarter.

Senior housing investment and construction slowed in early 2019, but investors remain confident in the sector’s long-term outlook, said Real Capital Markets, New York.

The office market remains broadly in an “expansionary” mode, with tenants driving 14 million square feet of net absorption in the first quarter, reported JLL, Chicago.

Commercial property market supply and demand fundamentals remained stable in late 2018, Moody’s Investors Service reported.

Freddie Mac, McLean, Va., closed a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit fund with nonprofit equity syndicator CAHEC, Raleigh, N.C., and initiated several investments within the fund.

Mortgage real estate investment trusts, debt funds and other “investor-driven lenders” are one of the hottest capital sources in today’s commercial real estate finance markets.

Commercial real estate transaction deal volume totaled $537 billion in 2018, the second-largest year on record for CRE sales in the U.S., reported Ten-X, Irvine, Calif.

New York regained its perch as the number one global city for foreign investors, displacing London, reported A Fellowship for International Real Estate, Washington, D.C.

Rent prices in single-family rental properties grew faster in February than in January, reported CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif.