Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 17, 2015
Time to Worry About Speculative Construction? Not Yet, Experts Say Strong construction starts were evident in almost every property sector this year, rising again a long dip in demand from 2009 to 2013, and speculative construction was definitely a part of the trend. According to recent data from research firm CoStar Group, the number of […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 16, 2015
Interest Rates, Cap Rates Don’t Move in Lockstep The monthly meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee that gets underway on Tuesday is expected to begin the long-awaited, long-delayed process of normalizing interest rates. With the prospect of near-term action by the Federal Reserve, “real estate investors are worried,” as a new report from TIAA-CREF […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 15, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Boom Won’t End on Higher Rates The commercial real estate boom that’s sent rent prices soaring in places like New York and San Francisco this year won’t end even if the Federal Reserve raises rates this week, according to one expert. “There’s still massive liquidity. That liquidity is not going away anytime […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 14, 2015
As Commercial Real-Estate Prices Soar, Fed Weighs Consequences Federal Reserve officials participating in a “war game” exercise this year came to a disturbing conclusion: Six years after the financial crisis ended, the central bank remained ill-equipped to quell the kind of dangerous asset bubbles that destabilized the savings-and-loan industry during the late 1980s, tech stocks […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 11, 2015
CBD Office Buildings Experienced 10-Year Price Appreciation of More Than 100 Percent The latest Commercial Property Prices Indices (CPPI) report produced by Moody’s and Real Capital Analytics (RCA) shows that prices in the commercial real estate universe have experienced double-digit appreciation over the past decade. According to the report, the national all-property composite index has […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 10, 2015
Matt’s Big Breakfast, Starbucks, Mountainside Fitness landing at State Farm campus in Tempe Popular Phoenix restaurant Matt’s Big Breakfast as well as a Starbucks and Mountainside Fitness are landing at the 2 million square foot Marina Heights development in Tempe. The Tempe project is poised to be the largest office development in the state. Matt’s […]
