Industry Research Reports

ICSC, JLL Findings: Retail Investment Globalizing

By Anna Spiewak, News Editor: The International Council of Shopping Centers and Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. issued a study showing that retail real estate is steadily going more global, as investors look for a yield in a post-Great Recession and recovery market.

REIT Executives Pocketed More Cash in 2011: FTI Consulting

Total pay for executives jumped 7 percent year-over-year on average. Compensation is becoming tied more closely to performance.

Cassidy Turley: CRE Recovery a Tale of Two Markets

In a year where the U.S. economy remains “stuck in a slow growth gear,” commercial real estate recovery is uneven and there are very clear winners and losers, according to Cassidy Turley chief economist Kevin Thorpe.

U.S. Leads Global Investment Sales as NYC Flexes Muscles: Cushman & Wakefield Midyear Update

U.S. investment sales are expected to reach $253 billion in 2011, a 25 percent jump compared to 2011. In the nation’s biggest office market, fundamentals remain sound.

BOMA Special Report: Energy Efficiency Measures Deliver Outsized Income Gains

Building owners and managers should look at even modest energy efficiency upgrades as a three-legged stool supporting stronger net operating income, says Patty Anderson of the McKinstry sustainability consulting firm.

BOMA Special Report: Stephenson Stresses Vigilance for Tenant Savings

Office building owners and managers can convince tenants to significantly reduce energy consumption – but they need to be vigilant in ongoing communication and relations efforts, stressed Jenny Stephenson, program manager with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program, during BOMA International’s Every Building conference in Seattle.

NAIOP: CRE Construction, Development Added $262B to GDP in 2011

The U.S. economy looks to be weathering the economic storm quite well as 2012 roars into its second quarter. A new report by NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, found that commercial real estate development contributed $261.6 billion to the U.S. GDP in 2011, including $137.8 billion in hard-cost construction spending as well as $123.8 billion in soft costs, site development and tenant improvements. The full extent of that $261.6 billion, however, will be felt through both direct spending and the “cumulative economic benefits resulting from the re-spending of these outlays (the multiplier effect),” the report noted. The report…

CBRE: Americas Takes Top Spot for Global Investments

According to a report by CBRE Group Inc., the Americas was the world’s best-performing region for real estate investment value, according to the Q1 2012 CBRE Capital Value Index. The result shifted the focus from the Asia-Pacific region, which led the world during most of 2011. Noting that the Americas saw a year-over-year gain of 9.6 percent in the first quarter of 2012, Raymond Torto, CBRE’s global chief economist, said that “there has been a marked increase in investor interest in the Americas’ prime properties over the last year. Last year at this time, the Americas was showing respectable gains,…

Exclusive: JLL Research Shows Latin America Hot on Hotels

Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels has released its first Latin America Hotel Investor Sentiment Survey, and the results show that investors are keen on both acquiring and developing in the region.