Approaching a Tipping Point? U.S. Office Rent Growth Lags Despite Rising Tenant Demand

Although rising levels of office absorption and a falling U.S. vacancy rate signal a strengthening market, the gains have yet to translate into meaningful rent increases for office landlords in most markets, CoStar Group reported this week in the company’s Second-Quarter 2012 Of
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Balancing Act: Lack of New Commercial Space Overcomes Softening Demand

Commercial real estate demand softened during the first quarter of 2012, but not enough to throw absorption off its pace of eight straight quarters of gains. The numbers were aided by little if any meaningful new construction coming online, resulting in declining vacancy rates. Althou
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Warehouse Demand Expected to Exceed Pre-Recession Peak in 2012

Prologis, the world’s largest developer and owner of warehouses, expects the recovery in logistics real estate will accelerate through 2012, with an upswing in production, trade and inventories translating into nearly 400 million square feet of positive absorption globally next year.
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Strong Demand, Tight Supply Strengthen Case for New Apartment Development

Investors continue to prefer U.S. apartment buildings over most commercial properties, even commercial office space, as total multifamily sales volume jumped nearly 80% in the second quarter over the same perioud last year. Although still just a fraction of its mid-2007 peak, the near
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Rising Prices Signal Gains In Commercial Real Estate Demand at Mid-Year Ahead of Latest Market Jolts

In an analysis of commercial real estate sales completed through June of this year, investors showed a sharpened appetite for commercial property, with increasing demand pushing prices up in the second quarter, according to the latest release of the CoStar Commercial Repeat Sale Indic
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