• Retail Availability: Perception versus Reality

    Apr 28, 2025, 14:40 PM by Daniel Diebel
    Perceptions about the retail market are often colored by a growing supply of obsolete space, which has tripled since 2020.
  • Post-COVID office sales volumes break with historical trends

    Apr 18, 2025, 10:08 AM by Matt Mowell
    More capital is attracted to a sector as vacancy falls, but the post-COVID era has broken with this precedent.
  • Low-correlation markets can help optimize portfolio returns

    Apr 11, 2025, 13:39 PM by Michael Leahy
    In a two-asset portfolio, it would be worthwhile to allocate some portion to an asset that offers lower expected returns and higher risk if the two assets are not perfectly correlated, as such diversification can improve the risk-adjusted return.
  • Commodity office stock is tough to price these days

    Mar 25, 2025, 14:10 PM by Matt Mowell
    The most recent Cap Rate Survey suggests greater uncertainty around office pricing, particularly for Class B and C assets where fundamentals and financial performance have deteriorated significantly more.
  • Double-digit office cap rates start to plateau

    Mar 20, 2025, 14:22 PM by Matt Mowell
    Office investment activity is slowly reviving, with most capital targeting higher quality buildings with stronger occupancy levels and better NOI prospects. Meanwhile, the Class B&C segments continue to struggle.
  • Capital markets pros believe cap rates have peaked

    Mar 10, 2025, 12:15 PM by Matt Mowell
    Every six months, CBRE surveys its U.S. capital markets and valuations professionals on whether they expect cap rates to rise or fall, and by how much.
  • Private Investors Dominating Office Activity Since 2020

    Feb 27, 2025, 11:22 AM by Michael Leahy
    Accompanying the recent decline in office investment activity has been a change in the profiles of those trading.
  • Converting Census Data to Different Geographic Areas

    Feb 26, 2025, 09:29 AM by Franz Limoges
    The U.S. Census publishes state and county-level data as well as for smaller areas like tracts, which contain blocks and block groups. We improve data analysis by converting tract and block group information into uniform hexagon shapes, known as Uber H3 hexagons.
  • Availability exceeds long-term average in most major industrial markets

    Feb 20, 2025, 10:05 AM by Matt Mowell
    Softening fundamentals have caused a sharp increase in industrial availability rates over the past three years.
  • Maturity Extensions Obscures Office Debt-Funding Gap

    Feb 6, 2025, 14:45 PM by Michael Leahy
    Large-scale lender forbearance – including loan extensions – over the past two years has made it difficult to estimate the size of the current debt-funding gap. Nevertheless, this chart provides an estimate of the debt-funding shortfall for office loans originated from 2017 to 2023 and coming due between 2025 and 2028.


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