By Karen L. Nickerson, Vice President & Senior Credit Officer of Moody’s Investors Service: The office REIT sector continues to improve, although uncertainty surrounding U.S. fiscal policy remains a drag on the sector’s fundamentals.

By Karen Nickerson, Moody’s Investors Service

The sentiment regarding the economic recovery has turned decidedly positive in 2011, a welcome divergence from the caution and uncertainty that prevailed in 2010. There is even optimism surrounding the outlook for job growth in 2011, good news for the office sector, which needs job creation to drive office demand.