Daily News 11-2-2026

Real estate opportunities may be broadening heading into 2027, but where investors place their bets will matter more than ever. Drawing from insights from over 1,700 leading real estate investors, developers, lenders, and advisers in the United States and Canada, the Urban Land Institute and PwC’s “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2027” report points to a market increasingly shaped by higher-for-longer interest rates, shifting demographics, shrinking development pipelines, and widening…»

Led by seniors housing, quarterly returns rose to 1.41% in the third quarter of 2026 from 1.29% in Q2, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) reported. The NCREIF Property Index (NPI) has now posted nine consecutive quarters of positive total return. Seniors housing returned 5.98% for the quarter, up from the 3.91% reported for Q2, with appreciation of 4.60% accounting for most of the gain and representing the index’s strongest sector result…»

Retail is back with a vengeance. Could multifamily be out of favor? Despite higher interest rates and economic uncertainty, commercial real estate remains attractive.

It’s a good time to be a buyer—and a good time to be a credit investor, according to Sara Queen, head of U.S. real estate for Oxford Properties, during the general session on the second day of the ULI Fall Meeting in Miami. But selectivity and astute asset management are critical, Queen said. “If you’re disciplined about it, you…»

The property types investors have spent recent years avoiding are now driving the US commercial real estate price recovery. The sector they piled into is moving in the opposite direction. And it is happening while borrowing costs are rising, not falling.

US commercial property prices rose 0.9% through September, according to MSCI’s RCA CPPI US National All-Property Index. That’s the strongest annual growth since December 2025. The quarterly number says more. Prices rose 0.9% from the…»

American office buildings are filling up faster than previously predicted, with a lack of new construction expected to drive vacancy lower through the next year. CoStar Group revised its office predictions through the end of next year to reflect rising demand for increasingly hard-to-find high-quality space. The ubiquitous online real estate marketplace now expects lower vacancy rates due in large part to an all-but-dead construction pipeline. “The latest forecast calls for a continuation of the…»