{"id":1004813997,"date":"2026-10-01T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004813997"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:32:09","slug":"protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting CRE Asset Value: What to Prioritize in Today\u2019s Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6abee5a93f978&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"alignright size-large is-resized wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004814006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\/cpevoices_100126_panelist\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/CPEVoices_100126_Panelist.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CPEVoices_100126_Panelist\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot by Michelle &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Clockwise from top left: CPE Editorial Director Suzann Silverman; Christopher Doman, CBRE; Alexandra Cooley, Nuveen Green Capital; David Smith, Cushman &#038; Wakefield; and Mike Acton, AEW Capital Management. 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While many markets remain near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/office-report-loan-maturities-add-to-market-strain\/\">national vacancy level<\/a> of 17.8 percent, return-to-office momentum continues to build. In August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/placer-ai-office-index-2\/\">office visits rose<\/a> 6.2 percent year-over-year, according to Placer.ai\u2019s office index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As more employees return to the office, creating a competitive tenant experience is becoming increasingly important. Christopher Doman, head of U.S. asset management at CBRE, sees maintaining relationships with tenants beyond individual transactions as another way to protect asset value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/what-a-credit-led-recovery-means-for-cre-investors\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/what-a-credit-led-recovery-means-for-cre-investors\/\">What a Credit-Led Recovery Means for CRE Investors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou need to meet the tenants where they are,\u201d Doman said, referring to tenants\u2019 changing space needs. Cultivating those relationships is particularly important when an office tenant is looking to downsize, such as from 30,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet, which Doman said should not necessarily be viewed as a loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described office leasing as \u201ca massive game of Jenga,\u201d with owners balancing expansion, contraction, termination and renewal rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acton also sees flexibility becoming increasingly important as tenant companies navigate rapidly changing business environments, including changes driven by AI. For owners, he said, the challenge is keeping properties relevant as tenants\u2019 needs evolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-patience-as-a-strategy\">Patience as a strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexandra Cooley, CEO &amp; CIO at Nuveen Green Capital, sees the current market as being in the early stages of a recovery, but one that will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/crew-special-report-navigating-a-high-rate-environment\/\">greater dispersion<\/a> across assets and markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With an uneven recovery, Cooley said this is pushing investors to take a longer-term view and focus more closely on the right asset, location, sponsor and capital stack. Another reason the panel noted for this longer-term view is the slowdown in new construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Smith, head of Americas insights, global research at Cushman &amp; Wakefield, explained that according to the firm\u2019s research, office space construction alone is about 85 percent below 2020 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf owners do have a longer-term perspective, they realize that there\u2019s no or very little new product coming online,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooley said long-term owners are looking several years ahead at how constrained supply could support future rent growth in certain markets. At the same time, new construction activity is falling as elevated debt costs make equity harder to secure for new projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That longer-term perspective is also influencing how owners structure their capital. Cooley said borrowers are seeking long-term, fixed-rate financing as uncertainty around the future path of interest rates remains elevated. Investors still do not know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/what-experts-are-watching-for-at-todays-fed-meeting\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/what-experts-are-watching-for-at-todays-fed-meeting\/\">whether rates have peaked<\/a> or could move materially higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity really is approaching it from a long-term perspective, in my mind,\u201d Cooley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-making-capital-count\">Making capital count<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s higher-cost capital environment, CRE owners are under pressure to reduce expenses while deciding where to deploy limited capital. Panelists cautioned, however, that cutting too aggressively can create longer-term problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to cut too much, and that penny pinching, if you will, could come back and haunt you,\u201d Smith said. Cutting costs too aggressively, he added, could reduce a property\u2019s competitiveness or hinder the tenant experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doman said the projects that still make sense generally fall into two buckets: those that protect occupancy and those that reduce operating costs. Examples include energy-efficiency upgrades, technology infrastructure and economically justifiable tenant improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/top-markets-office-deliveries-h1\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/top-markets-office-deliveries-h1\/\">Top 10 Markets for Office Deliveries in H1 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, speculative suites in weak leasing markets, lobby and common-area renovations without a clear leasing thesis and repositioning projects dependent on unsupported cap-rate assumptions are more likely to be deferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing the panel advised owners not to ignore was necessary maintenance. Doman said owners may ultimately face a financial penalty when future buyers identify maintenance that has been neglected. Acton joked that anything involving water should not be ignored because \u201cwater is the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo think that you\u2019re going to get away with that and that the next buyer is not going to see it\u201d is unrealistic, Acton said, noting that the real estate market has become increasingly information efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry experts weigh in on tenant retention, capital allocation and long-term value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3749,"featured_media":1004814006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21808,21825,21783,23891,21742,21747,21785,21797],"tags":[33758,32789,34908,52351],"class_list":["post-1004813997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-featured","category-finance","category-investment","category-national","category-latest","category-office","category-property-management","category-webinars","tag-aew-capital-management","tag-cbre","tag-cushman-wakefeld","tag-nuveen-green-capital"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protecting CRE Asset Value: What to Prioritize in Today\u2019s Market - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prioritizing where to invest has become harder for commercial real estate owners as elevated interest rates make debt more expensive.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protecting CRE Asset Value: What to Prioritize in Today\u2019s Market\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prioritizing where to invest has become harder for commercial real estate owners as elevated interest rates make debt more expensive.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-01T21:32:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-01T21:32:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/CPEVoices_100126_Panelist.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mikayla Sciortino\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mikayla Sciortino\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f119cdcafd70d8f34fc5aa340ed5382b\"},\"headline\":\"Protecting CRE Asset Value: What to Prioritize in Today\u2019s Market\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-01T21:32:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-10-01T21:32:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":851,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/protecting-cre-asset-value-what-to-prioritize-in-todays-market\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.commercialsearch.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/46\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/CPEVoices_100126_Panelist.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AEW Capital Management\",\"CBRE\",\"Cushman &amp; 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