CPE Poll: Emerging Investment Alternatives

Commercial Property Executive has a new poll! We’re interested in hearing about your firm’s plans for participating in alternative investment ventures, particularly at a time when transaction volumes have slowed due to inaccessible capital costs and a 22-year high Federal Funds rate.

Emerging alternatives include preferred equity and debt funds, which provide investors with a reliable, fixed-income cash flow, as well as distressed office and retail assets, which have seen a decreased occupancy rate as tenants move to higher-quality space.

In last month’s poll, readers were asked about their firm’s present uses of artificial intelligence, at a time when commercial real estate’s appetite for new technologies is narrowed. Half of the respondents identified marketing and outreach as their primary uses, alongside other, more sector-specific proptech demands. Another 25 percent stated that they are holding off on using it, likely due to the newness of the technologies and, at times, to their questionable reliability. The remaining 24 percent of responses were split evenly between uses of automation for data analysis, due diligence and back office work. Primarily, these are areas where automation serves as more of an assistant to the more rudimentary aspects of the tasks themselves, as opposed to an outright replacement.

Click here to see CPE’s latest poll, and the results of previous surveys.