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Jun 21, 2022

Real Estate is Taking Over the Metaverse: What to Know Before Investing

Early speculators, investors from all over the world, real estate agents, and celebrities are buying land that doesn’t physically exist in the real world. They are investing in metaverse real estate, a concept that is hard to wrap our minds around.

Jun 8, 2022

Mid Year Economic Outlook and CRE

On June 2, 2022, Coldwell Banker Commercial’s Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Dan Spiegel, hosted Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) for an insightful and fascinating discussion where viewers learned how the American economy is performing at the midyear mark, important factors to consider and how it is affecting commercial real estate across all asset classes.

May 17, 2022

WMRE's Common Area: What to Expect from CRE in 2022 With CBC’s Dan Spiegel

In this week’s blog, we highlight some of the most impactful insights from Dan Spiegel’s conversation on WMRE’s Common Area podcast. In this episode, host David Bodamer is joined by Dan Spiegel, senior vice president and managing director with Coldwell Banker Commercial. Spiegel shares where real estate investors are currently putting their money and what’s new in site selection practices among retail and restaurant tenants. He also discusses the continuing importance of maintaining bricks-and-mortar retail locations even as the trend toward e-commerce continues to grow. The two industry experts take a deep dive into CBC’s 2022 commercial real estate outlook, which you can access here.

May 3, 2022

2021 Apartment Construction Boom Overview

2021 was an incredibly strong year for apartment construction. According to Yardi Matrix, 334,000 units were projected to open in the U.S. by the end of 2021. As explained by Yardi Matrix, the number of projected units reveal a striking difference between the aftermath of the pandemic crisis and that of the housing crisis of 2008. In 2021, there were nearly three times more apartments under construction than there were in 2011.

Apr 5, 2022

CBC Chatter: FinTech and CRE

On March 31st, 2022, Coldwell Banker Commercial hosted its third CBC Chatter, a virtual quarterly series hosted by Senior Vice President and Managing Director Daniel Spiegel to discuss hot topics in the world of commercial real estate. This event focused on FinTech and how the rising industry is changing how everyone in CRE – owners, brokers, buyers – are being affecting by the shift.

Mar 22, 2022

2022 Outlook Part 2: Expect Another Strong Year

As we mentioned in part 1 of CBC’s 2022 Outlook blog post series, the CBC team recently released its outlook on 2022 commercial real estate trends, which you can access here. In the first part, we took a closer look into the confidence in the property market and how that helped to push commercial property values to a 15-year high in the third quarter, the increase in transaction volume in 2021, annual CRE sales volume by property type, and more. In part 2, we will provide insight that is backed by research and analytics, as well as explore a wide variety of real estate trends including the commercial real estate sales volume and investment surge by market, the build-to-rent trend, multifamily rent growth by market, and retail and industrial rent growth. After conducting extensive research, the CBC team confidently predicts that 2022 will be another strong year fueled by stable cash flows and pent-up demand.

Mar 15, 2022

2022 Outlook Part 1: Expect Another Strong Year

The CBC team recently released its outlook on 2022 commercial real estate trends, which you can access the report here. The outlook provides insight that is backed by research and analytics, and explores a wide variety of real estate trends including, confidence in the property market, the increase in transaction volume, job growth and demand for commercial real estate space in secondary markets. The report notes that investors are capitalizing on rising rents and demand for space, points out what cap rates are in popular Sun Belt and secondary markets, highlights the build-to-rent trend for multifamily, observations of retail and industrial markets, the future of office demand, self-storage, and demand for medical space. After conducting extensive research, the CBC team confidently predicts that 2022 will be another strong year fueled by stable cash flows and pent-up demand.

Mar 8, 2022

Mortgage Bankers Say All Major Investor Groups Increased CRE Mortgage Debt Holdings

A recent report by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) shows remarkable confidence in the commercial real estate sector by every major investor group. The level of commercial/multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased by $64.8 billion, or 1.6 percent, in the third quarter of 2021.

Mar 1, 2022

Institutions Remain Significantly Under-Invested Relative to Target Allocations

Despite decreased returns in 2020, institutional investor confidence in commercial real estate remains strong, reaching a nine-year high in 2021, according to a study by Hodes Weill & Associates and Cornell University’s Baker Program in Real Estate. Their ninth annual Institutional Real Estate Allocations Monitor shows pensions, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and other institutions continue to look to real estate as an important portfolio diversifier, hedge against inflation and source of stable income.

Feb 22, 2022

House Passes LIBOR Legislation

Legislation that impacts commercial real estate is moving through the United States Congress. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the ‘‘Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act of 2021,” H.R. 4616 by 415 to 9 margin, on Wednesday December 8, 2021.