Category: News and Trends

Commercial real estate increasingly focuses on the needs of firms employing fewer than 50 people because their job growth outpaces larger firms nearly five to one, a new CRE trends report said.

Slowly and quietly, the office market recovery is gathering pace, reported Reis, New York. 

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate dropped significantly in September after four months of negligible movement, reported Trepp, New York.

Cap rates for the single-tenant net lease retail and office sectors continue to fall to new lows, reported the Boulder Group, Northbrook, Ill.

The office market’s resurgence may trail other sectors, but recent office market trends show some good news for the nation’s largest metro areas, said Delta Associates, Alexandria, Va. 

U.S. lodging fundamentals remain unusually strong considering the sector recently crossed its 59th consecutive month of growth, reported Fitch Ratings, New York. 

The Mortgage Bankers Association released its Commercial/Multifamily DataBook for the second quarter today.

Many analysts expressed surprise when the Federal Reserve decided not to raise interest rates on Sept. 17. But commercial real estate could weather a rate increase, said Marcus & Millichap’s William Hughes.

If the adage that commercial real estate follows a 10-year cycle with only a seven-year memory holds true, it would be wise to refresh some memories, said Fitch Ratings Managing Director Huxley Somerville.

Commercial real estate should continue expanding at “healthy and fairly steady” levels through 2017, a survey of nearly 50 economists said yesterday.