Commercial Real Estate Investment’s Curious Rise Amid Higher Inflation, Rates
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. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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Last week, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point while signaling another hike later this year. It seems like just yesterday that everyone in commercial real estate was bemoaning high interest ra…
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