The Lede

San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 22, 2019--Allen BuchananWhether you own and occupy a building in California or lease the premises, this will affect you. A proposition on the Nov. 3, 2020 ballot could dramatically increase property taxes for commercial properties.

HousingWire, Aug. 22, 2019--Kelsey RamirezMortgage originations in commercial and multifamily surged 10% annually in the second quarter, according to the Mortgage Banker Association's Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations.

Caribbean Business, Aug. 26, 2019--Jose Alvarado Vega Puerto Rico's commercial real estate sector has the potential to be a big contributor to the island's post-hurricane economic recovery, due to a combination of technological innovations in manufacturing and retail logistics, as well as to the disruption of global supply chains as a result of the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, said real estate economist Kiernan K.C. Conway.

Mortgage Professional America, Aug. 26, 2019--Kimberly GreenPlanning the same conference for more than two decades could put an organizing committee in a bit of a rut. Rather than featuring the same old panel discussions on industrial, multifamily, and office, however, the California Mortgage Bankers Association organizing committee behind the annual Western States Commercial Real Estate Finance conference listened to their members on the ground.

Commercial real estate values are a function of a property's income and the capitalization (cap) rate. Essentially the inverse of a price-to-earnings ratio, cap rates are a gauge of the yield investors demand to put their money into commercial real estate--with a lower cap rate demonstrating higher investor interest in each dollar of current income.

Real Capital Analytics, New York, said the industrial sector sustained commercial property price growth in July even as CRE transaction volume fell sharply.

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Performance growth projections for the U.S. hotel industry are slipping, two sector analysts said.

Commercial real estate values are a function of a property's income and the capitalization (cap) rate. Essentially the inverse of a price-to-earnings ratio, cap rates are a gauge of the yield investors demand to put their money into commercial real estate--with a lower cap rate demonstrating higher investor interest in each dollar of current income.

Commercial real estate values are a function of a property's income and the capitalization (cap) rate. Essentially the inverse of a price-to-earnings ratio, cap rates are a gauge of the yield investors demand to put their money into commercial real estate--with a lower cap rate demonstrating higher investor interest in each dollar of current income.

Fitch Ratings, New York, reported the volume of commercial mortgage-backed securities loans and assets in special servicing declined nearly 10 percent between April and July to $9.8 billion.