Chart of the Week: Total Commercial Real Estate Lending, 2020-2025

Based on the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) 2025 Commercial/Multifamily Annual Origination Volume Summation report, the commercial real estate lending market demonstrated meaningful recovery in 2025, with total origination volume reaching approximately $706 billion.

Investors Set to Deploy More Capital as CRE Market Stabilizes: CBRE

Investors are preparing to deploy more capital into the commercial real estate market in 2026, supported by stabilizing pricing expectations, improved fundamentals and optimism about declining debt costs, according to CBRE, Dallas.

Colliers Sees CRE Momentum

Colliers, Seattle, said the commercial real estate market enters 2026 with “renewed momentum” as stabilizing fundamentals, easing financial conditions, strengthening occupier demand and rising investor confidence set the stage for a long-awaited reset.