Bay Area NIH Funding Slips to $1.3B as Federal Budget Fights Test Research Lab Landlords
Why this matters
Commercial real estate continues to digest a multi-year reset in cost of capital. Transaction velocity is below the 2019-2021 trend but improving, cap rates have stabilized across most stabilized property types, and the bid-ask gap has narrowed materially in the past two quarters. Sponsors with permanent capital and operating platforms have an advantage in the current execution environment. San Diego life sciences vacancy remains the lowest in the major life-science clusters, and multifamily fundamentals continue to be supported by a coastal supply ceiling. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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National Institutes of Health funding to Bay Area researchers slipped to $1.3 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, part of a West Coast pullback Savills also tracked in San Diego and Seattle that puts unive…
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