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By Adriana Limbasan Property trades have a tendency to increase in the last quarter as investors race to close deals before the end of the year. With New York City a perennial focal point for investors, it was not surprising to see an uptick in transactions. In all, 698 commercial transactions closed in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 13 percent over the third quarter. But it was encouraging that the number of transactions also rose over the fourth quarter of the previous year, albeit by a slight 5 percent. The median sale price was 15 percent higher,…

Chris Wimmer, CFA Vice President & Senior Analyst, Moody’s Investors Service

Strong fundamentals, along with low levels of construction, an increasingly stable employment environment and the difficulties in the single-family market, have pushed occupancy rates and cash-flow growth to new highs in the multi-family market.

By Bill Rose, National Director, National Retail Group, Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Services Inc.

For net-lease investments, demand for single-tenant assets is steadily increasing. The traditional dynamics are fluctuating and the lines that separate extreme-value stores and drugstores, for example, are becoming less evident.

By Bruce Davis, Senior Partner, Lee and Associates Atlanta

Cap rates have been high for several quarters in a row. But is the cap-rate measure still valid to use when evaluating a CRE buy, especially in the multi-family and net-lease markets?