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The 2024 Commercial Real Estate Outlook Is Hazy
Often in the financial markets, investor sentiment is among the most telling indicators of market condition. Sentiment alone can swing the stock market, cause digital bank runs (think Silicon Valley Bank), stall lending markets, direct asset pricing, or spur the economy. Often, it’s a crystal ball for future investment activity. For 2024, unfortunately, that crystal…
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Placemaking Is the Key to a Successful Mixed-Use Development
Mixed-use real estate is quickly becoming one of the most popular asset classes. The property type is transforming urban landscapes and providing people with easy access to restaurants, retail, recreation, and more. Mixed-use properties have the potential to create dense walkable live-work-play environments that enhance the vibrancy of a city and community—but to create such…
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Will the “Envy Office” Help Revive the Office Building Market?
Since the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the era of remote work, companies and businesses have been looking for unique ways to draw workers back to the office. The “envy office” – or office buildings with aesthetically pleasing and Instagrammable lobbies, conference rooms, or shared spaces – are the latest attempt to get remote workers returning…
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How CRE Developers Can Accurately Predict Demographic Trends
Real estate development projects are driven by demographics. Where people live, travel and spend time, along with annual income, education, household formation and age, are all details that inform and shape a city’s construction pipeline. Often, developers need evidence of specific demographic criteria to merit a development thesis before land acquisition or ground breaking, and…
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How A Real Estate Asset Valuation Reset Will Impact CRE Developers
A wide bid-ask spread has characterized the commercial real estate investment market this year. Due to the rampant rise in interest rates over the last 18 months, buyers and sellers cannot seem to get on the same page about asset values. Buyers expect—as is standard during an elevated interest rate environment—lower asset prices to offset…
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Top 10 Predictions for Commercial Real Estate in 2024
The past couple of years have brought about unprecedented conditions in commercial real estate, and it may feel difficult to predict what’s coming next in the market. Economic conditions may be less certain than ever before, but tracking trends and opportunities is still a valuable practice for your firm moving into 2024 and beyond. As…
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Everything Developers Need to Know About the Future of Shared Workspace
Despite the public struggles and subsequent bankruptcy of WeWork, the future of shared workspace has continued to evolve. WeWork, which once represented the vision of co-working offices that bring together freelancers, remote workers, and small office communities, has faced challenges from both internal disorganization and the rise of remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However,…
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What a ‘Twilight Zone’ Recession Means for CRE Developers
Economists are predicting a potential “Twilight Zone recession” could occur in the next year, an odd scenario where overall growth and output decrease but employment remains stable. Recession conditions, even if unusual, will impact your commercial real estate development operations. By understanding the factors contributing to the current economic moment, and leveraging several key strategies…
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Key Migration Trends Every Commercial Real Estate Developer Should Know
In March 2020, The New York Times published “The Great Empty,” a photo series of desolate plazas, subway stations, city streets and concert halls. Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles, The Spanish Steps in Rome, Times Square in New York, Place de la Concorde in Paris and the Red Fort Fair…