Beyond the Headlines, CRE Is Thousands of Local Stories
Why this matters
Office continues to trade in two distinct markets: trophy assets in walkable submarkets that are leasing at or near record rents, and commodity Class B and C buildings where the basis is still resetting. Underwriting on the latter has moved toward replacement-cost-minus, with credit underwriting now leaning on tenant covenant and remaining lease term rather than mark-to-market expectations. For LP-positioned capital, the read-through is that the bifurcation is now a structural feature of the sector, not a cycle to wait out.
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Read the commercial real estate headlines and you would picture the market as rows of glass towers and mega-warehouses ringing a handful of big cities: distressed office high-rises, institutional write-downs, the occa…
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