All Together Now: How investors are navigating today’s fluid capital markets
May 27, 2024
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This podcast discusses the uncertainty of interest rates in commercial real estate, highlighting the challenges faced by industrial and multifamily sectors. It explores the importance of maintaining strong lender relationships and the split nature of the office sector. Retail is gaining significance to institutional investors amidst the evolving economic landscape.
Interest rate uncertainty hampers real estate investment, office sector divided between prime and struggling properties.
Maintaining strong lender relationships crucial amid softening industrial and multifamily fundamentals, stability in prime assets.
Deep dives
Commercial Real Estate Market Overview
The commercial real estate market is experiencing varying trends. Industrial and multifamily sectors are seeing softening fundamentals but remain stable historically. Office sector is divided with prime properties outperforming while others struggle. Retail market is gaining importance to larger investors. Despite investor hesitation, there is interest in finding clarity in investment practices.
Economic Outlook and Interest Rates
The USA GDP growth is expected to continue at a solid pace with a potential slowdown to around 2.2% in 2024. Real estate fundamentals are robust, influenced by strong consumer spending and manufacturing growth. Interest rates and inflation are expected to trend down, allowing for potential rate cuts in 2025 to ease economic pressures.
Office Sector Challenges and Future
The office sector faces challenges due to hybrid work models and economic uncertainties. Renewals are high, but average lease sizes have decreased by 25%. Vacancy rates have increased to 19%, impacting different types of properties differently. Future expectations include a slowdown in deliveries that might alleviate supply side pressures.
Debt Capital Markets and Investment Activity
Debt capital markets play a crucial role in driving investment activity. Credit availability and pricing heavily influence investment decisions. Interest rates and macroeconomic factors are key determinants affecting debt pricing and availability. Investor sentiments show interest in deploying capital, focusing on core and value-add opportunities across various asset classes.
CBRE Capital Markets specialists offer insights on debt availability, capital flows, sector fundamentals and deal pricing, while our Chief Economist comments on the economic outlook.
Insights to Share:
Uncertainty about the direction of interest rates continues to hamper commercial real estate investment activity.
Industrial and multifamily are facing softening fundamentals, but remain historically solid.
Office continues to be split between the best assets and most of the rest and retail is growing in importance to institutional investors.
Maintaining strong relationships with lenders is always critical, but especially so now.
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