Liquidity Squeeze Puts the AI Trade on Notice
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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Executive Summary Skeptics of the AI-fueled stock rally have long warned of a bubble, and last Thursday gave them their strongest evidence yet. Whether AI is a bubble or a richly valued growth story is still an open q…
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