Commercial Real Estate Insights

What the Stimulus Measure Offers CRE

The bill extends temporary relief from Troubled Debt Restructuring under the CARES Act for an additional year, to January 1, 2022. Finally, Congress has passed another stimulus measure. A $900 billion bill that includes several provisions beneficial to commercial real...

Economic Update | December 18, 2020

Unemployment  The Civilian Unemployment Rate (U-3) fell from 6.9% in October to 6.7% in November. The 0.2% month- over-month decline is the slowest rate of improvement since the Spring shutdown. While improvement is slowing, U-3 has recovered by 8.0% since April, when...

Economic Update | December 4, 2020

Retail According to Moody’s Analytics / REIS reporting, signs of distress are spreading in the retail sector. The sector’s vacancy rate rose by 0.2% to 10.4% in the third quarter, reaching a seven-year high. Average asking retail rents declined 0.1% from the previous...

Positive signs are on the horizon for CRE

The announcement of successful vaccine trials and new concepts of employee work environments may be good news for the industry It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying lockdown have inflicted severe damage upon the world economy. That’s been true of...

Economic Update | November 13, 2020

GDP According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the U.S. GDP grew at an annualized rate of 33.1% in the third quarter of 2020. The third quarter rebound follows the worst single quarter contraction on record. Annualized economic total output fell by 31.4% in Q2....

Economic Update | October 30, 2020

Multifamily According to Real Capital Analytics’ hedonic cap rate series, multifamily cap rates ticked down a minuscule two basis points between Q2 and Q3 2020, settling at 5.23%. Conversely, RCA’s transaction cap rate series ticked up by 20 bps, signaling that there...