By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: What should we make of the economic and financial quakes since the beginning of the year?

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: Yield-hungry investors are betting on secondary markets as prices keep rising in primary markets. But just what is a secondary market?

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: At the Urban Land Institute’s biannual meeting in Chicago this week, researchers expressed optimism about the future of real estate, and they don’t foresee another recession imminently.

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: Once again, policymakers are engaged in a battle of chicken, holding government funding hostage while Wall Street and Main Street watch nervously from the sidelines.

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: What impact will the looming debt ceiling have on commercial real estate?

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: Commercial real estate cycles shift gradually, almost imperceptibly. One would be hard-pressed to identify a particular moment when the real estate cycle transitions from one of its four phases to the next: recession, recovery, expansion and overbuilding. Such transitions tend to be visible only in hindsight.

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: The Federal Reserve hopes the answer to that question is stronger economic growth.

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: Interest rates have bumped up recently, with the 10-year Treasury yield increasing from 1.70 percent on April 30 to 2.16 percent on May 31.

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: The disadvantage of a busy travel schedule is that it’s hard to get one’s regular work done. The advantage is that you learn some interesting things from talking with practitioners in the field.

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: Apparently you can’t have an earnings call these days without bemoaning the economy and blaming the government – which deserves to be criticized for its inability to govern. But I question the impact the legislative stalemate is having on the economy.