The Office Sector Debt-Funding Gap

Dec 21, 2022, 10:58 AM by Michael Leahy

The United States office sector faces a large aggregate future funding gap in the near-term due to lower LTVs and substantial value erosion.
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Big cities need all the apartments they can get

Dec 13, 2022, 07:01 AM by Matt Mowell

Multifamily demand is slowing amid worrying signals about the direction of the economy. Nevertheless, structural supply shortages remain and most major cities have plenty of headroom to build more units.
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Is it a Flight to Quality or Flight from Commodity?

Dec 7, 2022, 09:28 AM by Stefan Weiss

Class A-, not Class B or C, office buildings comprise more than 70% (by sq. ft.) of office buildings with the greatest increase in vacant sq. ft. from Q1 2020 to Q2 2022.
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The Road to Net Zero Varies by City

Nov 28, 2022, 11:23 AM by Matt Mowell

The sooner commercial properties begin the process to become net zero by 2050, as called for in the Paris Climate Agreement, the sooner property owners can realize the benefits of limited carbon footprints and lower energy costs.
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Are hotel demand and office occupancy correlated?

Nov 14, 2022, 13:23 PM by Matt Mowell

Ostensibly, office attendance and hotel demand are recovering together but evidence that one causes the other is thin. Certainly, increased hotel demand could boost office attendance as out-of-town senior leaders or vendors fly in for face-to-face meetings, encouraging local workers to venture into the office.
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Inflation and Commercial Real Estate: a more nuanced relationship than often portrayed

Nov 7, 2022, 14:33 PM by Matt Mowell

Commercial real estate is often thought of as a reliable inflation hedge. However, real estate’s ability to hedge inflation is not a foregone conclusion. Each cycle is different, and each property type will respond to macro trends in different ways.
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Building Performance Standards aim to reduce carbon emissions across the U.S.

Nov 3, 2022, 09:45 AM by Vincent Planque

Building Performance Standards (BPS), which are outcome-based state and local benchmarking laws, have been introduced to reduce GHG emissions in the real estate industry. Read our latest Viewpoint to see how the sector will be impacted.
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Multifamily may have some insulation from an economic chill

Oct 26, 2022, 13:09 PM by Nathan Adkins

Historically, for-sale housing affordability and multifamily vacancy rates have been correlated, though a causal relationship between the two is not always apparent.
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CBRE EA Develops Office Taking Rent Series

Oct 21, 2022, 13:53 PM by Dennis Schoenmaker

The CBRE Econometric Advisors (EA) Taking Rent series leverages proprietary CBRE transaction data to model the spread between asking and taking rents across markets over time.
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Denominator Effect Takes Hold as Pension Funds’ Real Estate Target-to-Allocation Gap Falls to Just 0.5%

Oct 13, 2022, 13:47 PM by Michael Leahy

Diversification is an important element of public pension plans' strategies and they set strict targets for the percentage of their investment portfolio they can allocate to each asset class.
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