The office headlines have barely changed in five years: vacancy is high, values are down, stay away. Underneath them, the market has moved a long way. Buildings have been converted or torn down, new construction has nearly stopped, and tenants search…
READ »Cobb County continues to attract retail investors thanks to its established shopping corridors, strong residential communities, and variety of neighborhood, grocery-anchored, and larger shopping centers. Looking at retail investment sales over the pas…
READ »Atlanta’s CBD retail market continues to show signs of resilience despite rising vacancy. While vacancy has reached 10.2%, more than double the metro Atlanta average, asking rents continue to increase and investors remain active. Strong long-term appr…
READ »Commercial real estate has a way of firing missiles at the people who work in it. A tenant in a single tenant building calls to say they are leaving unless the rent is cut in half. A Class B or C office building sits half empty in a market with more …
READ »For 48 years, the Emerging Trends in Real Estate report from PwC and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) has captured what the people who own, lend on, and build commercial property expect from the year ahead. This year’s edition draws on more than 500 in…
READ »US commercial property values spent roughly two years adjusting downward and finished about 20% below their peak. What makes that decline unusual is what was missing from it. The economy never went into recession. By that measure, this is the first s…
READ »Retail sales in the United States have more than doubled since the global financial crisis. Over that same stretch, the industry added very little net new retail space. That gap between what consumers spend and what landlords can offer is the definin…
READ »A little less than half of the world’s institutional quality real estate sits in the United States. For a pension plan in Canada, a sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East, or an insurance company in Japan, that makes the US very hard to leave out o…
READ »This article was written by Steve Marcinuk and originally published by KeyCrew Journal on October 5, 2026. It features insight from Michael Bull, CCIM, founder of Bull Realty. The conventional wisdom on office real estate has settled into a fami…
READ »Total returns on US commercial real estate have now increased for roughly 8 consecutive quarters. Historically, once total returns turn positive after a downturn like the one we just came through, they tend to stay positive. For anyone with capital t…
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