Commercial Real Estate Insights
How Important is Building Condition When Leasing a Commercial Space?
Looking for new office space comes with a lot of responsibility. You need to find the right building, somewhere your business will stay for a long time, plus a landlord who cares about their renters. It's a lot to juggle, especially if you don't know how to value...
Does an Inverted Yield Curve Spell Doom for CRE?
And here’s another question: Will lower interest rates lead to riskier CRE deals? WASHINGTON, DC—On Wednesday the yield curve inverted—that is, yields on two-year Treasury bonds were higher than those on the ten-year bonds—for a short period of time before the markets...
What to Make of Gyrating Markets and Global Trade Wars
CoStar Analysts Take Stock of Recent Headlines It appears that U.S. financial market is finally waking up to the reality of the intended and unintended consequences of the trade war. The main unintended result as been the uncertainty among businesses about future...
Q2 2019 Market Update
Q2 2019 Commercial Real estate volume reached $127 billion in transaction volume in Q2 2019, up 2% from last year’s Q2 volume. Led by the office, apartment, and senior housing sectors, this marks an improvement from the dip seen in Q1 of 2019.Senior housing and care...
Opportunity Zone Land Will Cost You
Investors and developers are paying a premium for land sites in opportunity zones, according to a new study. Investors and developers are paying a premium for land sites in opportunity zones. A new study from Real Capital Analytics shows a rapid increase in pricing...
How Certain Real Estate Investments Outperform the Stock Market
The real estate investor, author and Apartment Building Investing Podcast host describes the real estate investments that he favors over stocks. NEW YORK CITY—Although average stock market returns over 15-year periods can look quite high, Michael Blank, the author of...
Appetite Strong But Cautious for Cannabis Real Estate
With the legalization of cannabis, there is a lot of excitement for new real estate uses, but there are still challenges to investing. The legalization of cannabis in California has been followed—and in some ways even preceded by—a rush of real estate investment to...
7-Eleven Tests If the Home of the Giant Blue Slurpee Can Also Sell Craft Beer and Cappuccino
Customers place an order at the Laredo Taco counter in the 7-Eleven Inc. lab concept store in Dallas, Texas. (Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images) ‘Lab Store’ Concept Emphasizes More Upscale Items On the theory that customers can’t live on hot dogs and Slurpees alone,...
Talk Of Interest Rate Cuts Boosts The Stock Market, But Don’t Expect A Similar CRE Windfall
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated last week the central bank could soon cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade. While commercial real estate typically welcomes rate cuts, economists don’t think it will drastically alter the...