By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: A few years ago analysts were calling the then-current phase of the economic cycle the Goldilocks recovery – strong enough to create jobs but not so strong as to push the Federal Reserve into raising interest rates.

By Robert Bach, National Director of Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: I don’t know about you, but I feel a little hung over, and the cause is not the half-empty bottle of champagne left over from New Year’s Eve.

By Robert Bach, National Director, Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: With the 2012 elections over, attention has turned to the looming “fiscal cliff,” the combination of tax hikes and spending cuts totaling approximately $718 billion in calendar year 2013 that threatens to tip the economy into recession.

By Robert Bach, National Director, Market Analytics, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: The multinational real estate firm unveils five most important trends/issues that commercial property buyers and sellers need to remember for the rest of the year and the beginning of 2013.

By Robert Bach, Grubb & Ellis Co.

The economy may be downshifting, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the commercial real estate investment market.

By Robert Bach, Grubb & Ellis Co.

Grubb & Ellis expects the dollar volume of transactions to increase another 75 percent to around $190 billion on top of the doubling seen in 2009. While these are impressive increases, they will return transaction volume close to the levels recorded in the 2003-2004 period, before the credit bubble began to inflate to uncontrollable proportions.

Greater Washington, DC absorbed more than 2.5 million square feet while Seattle contributed 1.2 million square feet as Amazon began moving into its newly completed campus in South Lake Union. Grubb & Ellis’ Seattle analyst reports that demand from smaller tenants in that market appears to have stabilized, and some are expanding. Thirty of the 55 markets reporting so far report positive absorption.