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Market Snapshot: Pittsburgh Multi-Family Construction on Fire

Pittsburgh has been experiencing a surge in apartment construction. Will it continue?

Market Snapshot: Phoenix Retail – A Mixed Bag

While the metro Phoenix retail market has had positive net absorption, other metrics have been less encouraging.

Office Markets Deliver

Office completions totaled 52 million square feet for the past year, including 19 million square feet in the fourth quarter of 2014—a 21 percent increase from one year earlier. The level of in-process construction is fairly close to the long-term average. Of the 107 million square feet of in-process construction, Houston’s 18 million square feet stands out as a very active supply pipeline. And there is another 5 million to 7 million square feet under construction in New York, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In fact, roughly a third of the office markets now…

Market Shares

(investment sales for 12 months ending March 31, 2015)

CMD: Construction Starts Results Are In

CMD has released its quarterly forecast on construction. Find out the scoop.

The Right Returns

(returns for Global Property Fund Index and three major regions, constant exchange rate)  

Randolph Mason

Option to Renew Not an Option for All

By Randolph T. Mason, CCIM, SIOR, Partner, Commercial Realty Specialists: When does a landlord not want a tenant to renew?

The Next Wave of REIT Privatization

By Britton Costa, Director, U.S. REITs, Fitch Ratings: Recently announced acquisitions of Excel Trust and Associated Estates may be harbingers of the next wave of U.S. REITs going private.

It Feels Like 2007 (But We’re Not There Yet)

By Ken Riggs, President, Situs RERC: Commercial real estate is rocking and rolling. Find out why.