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Redefining “Normal” Commercial Real Estate Fundamentals
Commercial real estate investors and developers are suffering from a bout of whiplash. The last year has been disorienting, with runaway inflation, a rapid increase in interest rates, and most recently, destabilization in the regional banking sector. The abrupt change in market fundamentals has justifiably spurred rampant uncertainty, and as a result, many investors and…
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CRE Proptech Begins to Overtake the Residential Market
Last year, the outlook for the proptech sector turned grim. After a historic period of growth in 2020 and 2021, new economic headwinds and an aggressive monetary policy have curbed the roaring market growth.
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A Sunbelt Real Estate Shake-Up: What Developers Need to Know
Since the 1950s, Americans have moved in one direction: south. Cities in the Sunbelt, a region known for warm weather, high quality of life, lower taxes, and affordability, have been the top US region for inward migration for decades. From 1945 to 1975, the population in the Sunbelt, also known as the Smile States, grew…
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Medical Real Estate Has Significant Untapped Development Potential
The U.S. healthcare industry is increasing as America’s elderly population grows and its overall quality of life improves. Those trends drive value for the life science asset class, even in an unstable economy.
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How Modern is Your Real Estate Development Team?
If you’re like most commercial real estate project delivery teams (or project leads), your day-to-day is busy. Really busy. Whether you’re the team coordinator or an industry veteran with 20+ years of experience, you know that running a major development project is complex and, more often than not, chaotic.
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Three Key Trends Shaping the 2023 Retail Real Estate Market
Retail real estate has undergone significant changes in recent years, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and online shopping becoming a major driver of retail revenue for the first time. As economic uncertainty has emerged as a multicycle challenge, development teams must stay up-to-date on the latest market trends to identify opportunities with the…
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3 Major Challenges Facing the Industrial Real Estate Market in 2023
The industrial real estate market has experienced explosive growth in recent years and emerged as a top asset class. Robust demand driven by the e-commerce boom and the need for distribution and logistics centers to support that expansion pushed the sector to new heights of purchasing and leasing activity. But mounting economic uncertainty took the…
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3 Things Developers Need to Know About Multifamily Real Estate in 2023
Staying informed about the multifamily real estate market will be crucial to the success of real estate developers in 2023. Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, market analysts believe the sector will perform well this year, with strong demand driving a 95% occupancy rate and 4% rent growth.
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How CRE Developers Can Protect Their Projects From Fraud
A recent New York Times article put the spotlight on a significant and insidious problem affecting real estate developers nationwide: construction contractor fraud.