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By Paul Bubny | January 12, 2025It’s really the first time in my life I’ve been able to choose where I want to live without football dictating my home base. NFL great Colt McCoy, who has just joined services firm HPI
If the past week’s most read stories on Connect CRE had a theme song, it might be “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Four of the five most-viewed st...Read more
By Paul Bubny | January 05, 2025309 residential conversion projects were planned or underway nationwide as of Q4 2024, an increase of more than 400% over the projects completed year to date. Wall Street Journal
An old adage holds that all politics is local, and evidently the same holds true for real estate. In counting down the five most-read Connect CRE sto...Read more
By Paul Bubny | December 22, 2024We will likely look back on 2025 as a pivotal moment of recovery in many areas of the commercial real estate sector–now is the time for investors to put capital to work and reposition their portfolios.David Steinbach, global CIO, Hines
Two regional retail transactions bookended the roster of Connect CRE’s five most-read stories for the past week. The most-read story put a somewhat...Read more
By Paul Bubny | December 15, 2024San Diego remains a top target nationally for investors, making up 10% of all U.S. multifamily transactions over $150 million and 23% of those in California, year-to-date since 2023.Hunter Combs, managing director, Walker & Dunlop
Transactions were top of mind for Connect CRE readers this past week, judging by the fact that all five of the week’s most-read stories reported sa...Read more
By Paul Bubny | December 08, 2024There are 38,000 residential units in the pipeline for conversion from other property types. CBRE
Two dissimilar stories about the sale of retail properties led the five most-read roster for Connect CRE over the past two weeks, including the short...Read more
By Paul Bubny | November 24, 2024We’re going to have a second-best year for [multifamily] absorption other than 2021 going back three-plus decades. It’s a remarkable story that speaks to the resiliency of this sector.Jay Parsons, principal and head of investment strategy at Madera Residential
Large-scale development led the past week in terms of Connect CRE reader interest. The week’s most-read and second most-read stories both entailed ...Read more
By Paul Bubny | November 17, 2024Investors are increasingly seeking access to the alternative real estate sectors given strong fundamentals and demonstrated performance across varying market environments.Christopher Merrill, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Harrison Street
“Unfinished” doesn’t always mean half-finished, and a project may be very close to the finish line when it runs out of momentum. That was the c...Read more
By Paul Bubny | November 10, 2024Though the economy has proven quite robust, new housing supply and affordability remain on shaky ground.Moussa Diop, associate professor of real estate at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
Marquee names filled the headlines of the five most read Connect CRE stories this past week. Leading the ranking was a story about deal talks that bo...Read more
By Paul Bubny | November 03, 2024Banks ‘extended-and-pretended’ their impaired CRE mortgages in the post-pandemic period to avoid writing off their capital, leading to credit misallocation and a buildup of financial fragility.Federal Reserve Bank of New York white paper
When manufacturing is in the news in 2024, more often than not it entails a tech-forward sector. That was the case with the past week’s most-read C...Read more
By Paul Bubny | October 27, 2024We continue to see tremendous demand for grocery-anchored properties across the country, with limited supply to meet the magnitude of current investor demand.CBRE National Retail Partners
The nation’s third largest city ranked first as far as Connect CRE readership over the past week was concerned. Chicago was the setting for the sto...Read more
By Paul Bubny | October 20, 2024The consumer price index declined to 2.4% in September, its lowest reading since February 2021. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Development was in the news this past week, with four of the five most-read Connect CRE stories for the week ending Oct. 17 reporting on projects in ...Read more
By Paul Bubny | October 18, 2024
With occupancy still exceeding 80%, Solomon Pond Mall in the Boston suburb of Marlborough, MA isn’t yet what would be considered a moribund retail ...Read more
By Carrie Jordan McClelland | October 18, 2024
Over the years, adaptive reuse has turned warehouses into residential loft buildings, movie theatres into retail space and office buildings into hote...Read more
By Paul Bubny | October 18, 2024
Regional stories comprised the five most-read roster on Connect CRE for the week ending Oct. 3, with two originating in the DMV (DC-Maryland-Virginia...Read more
By Paul Bubny | October 18, 2024
Real estate may be affected by macroeconomic trends or geopolitical currents, but above all, real estate is local. That point was driven home by this...Read more
By Paul Bubny | September 15, 2024Considering the achieved and continuing progress on inflation and moderation in the labor market, I believe the time has come to lower the target range for the federal funds rate at our upcoming meeting.Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller
Development was a recurring theme in four of the five most read Connect CRE stories for the week ending Sept. 12. It’s been said that success beget...Read more
By Paul Bubny | September 13, 2024Commercial mortgage volume is expected to rise 26% year over year to $539 billion for 2024. Mortgage Bankers Association
Two Washingtons—the state and the District of Columbia—were the points of origin for three of the five most read Connect CRE stories for the week...Read more
By Paul Bubny | September 13, 202437% of office users plan to downsize their space, down from 53% a year ago. CBRE
Broad national trends and a couple of regional transactions that drew attention outside their regions comprised the five most read Connect CRE storie...Read more
By Paul Bubny | September 13, 2024The primary way to tackle the nation’s housing affordability crisis is to increase the nation’s housing supply.Carl Harris, chair of the National Association of Home Builders
The sound of the other shoe dropping could almost be heard in the background as Connect CRE readers perused the past week’s most-read story. We sen...Read more
By Paul Bubny | September 13, 2024The question as we look ahead is whether the current status quo of slow rent growth and elevated concessions will continue, or whether rents will actually come down.Skylar Olsen, chief economist, Zillow
Although office-to-residential conversions often aren’t as cut-and-dried as some believe they would be, there have been some notable successes. The...Read more
