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This research article analyzes the performance of the hotel market in Baltimore for the trailing four quarters ending in Q3 2024.
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Viewpoint | Intelligent Investment
A Quadrant Approach to Commercial Real Estate Investing: Private Equity
February 5, 2025
Property returns exhibit serial correlation, making them partially predictable based on past returns. This needs to be considered when comparing private and public property returns.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
Shifting Demand Patterns Drive Non-CBD Outperformance
November 12, 2024
The pandemic-induced shift in work, travel and transportation patterns has led core Central Business District (CBD) hotels to underperform their non-CBD counterparts both in occupancy and daily rates.
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Viewpoint | Intelligent Investment
A Quadrant Approach to Commercial Real Estate Investing: Public Equity
November 5, 2024
This Viewpoint is the fourth in a series that examines the relationship between the CRE quadrants of public debt, private debt, private equity and public equity.
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Viewpoint | Intelligent Investment
A Quadrant Approach to Commercial Real Estate Investing: Private Debt
August 7, 2024
Senior mortgage returns are far more correlated across property types than property investments.
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Viewpoint | Intelligent Investment
A Quadrant Approach to Commercial Real Estate Investing: Public Debt
July 12, 2024
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) allow fixed-income investors to gain exposure to commercial mortgages based on their desired risk tolerance.
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Viewpoint | Intelligent Investment
A Quadrant Approach to Commercial Real Estate Investing
June 17, 2024
The four primary ways investors can gain exposure to commercial real estate are private equity, public equity, private debt and public debt.
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Viewpoint | Creating Resilience
Community Solar: A Growing Opportunity Within Commercial Real Estate
April 22, 2024
Overview of the benefits and opportunities from community solar for commercial property owners.
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Prime, or Class A+, office space has been outperforming other classes of office space since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CBRE EA estimates cap rates at the sector level using four different methods and compares these with our CBRE EA cap rates.
Featured Briefs
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Post-COVID Office Sales Volumes Break With Historical Trends
April 17, 2025
It makes intuitive sense. More capital is attracted to a sector as vacancy falls.
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Low-Correlation Markets Can Help Optimize Portfolio Returns
April 11, 2025
Harry Markowitz taught us the value of diversification for reducing risk within a portfolio of assets.
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CBRE’s Cap Rate Surveys shed light on both the average cap rate and the spread between the lowest and highest estimates.
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Office investment activity is slowly reviving, with most capital targeting higher quality buildings with stronger occupancy levels and better NOI prospects. Meanwhile, the Class B&C segments continue to struggle.
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Every six months, CBRE surveys its U.S. capital markets and valuations professionals on whether they expect cap rates to rise or fall, and by how much.
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Private Investors Dominating Office Activity Since 2020
February 26, 2025
Accompanying the recent decline in office investment activity has been a change in the profiles of those trading.
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Brief | Future Cities
Availability Exceeds Long-term Average in Most Major Industrial Markets
February 19, 2025
Softening fundamentals have caused a sharp increase in industrial availability rates over the past three years.
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Maturity Extensions Obscures Office Debt-Funding Gap
February 6, 2025
Our December 2022 debt-funding analysis noted a substantial gap between outstanding debt backing office properties and the new financing available when current loans mature.
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Price-To-Earnings Analysis Reveals Potentially Attractive Real Estate Opportunities
January 30, 2025
The sharp rise in interest rates has pushed up yields across property sectors and geographies, driving down property values.
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Brief | Creating Resilience
Assessing the Property Impact of the Unfolding Los Angeles Tragedy
January 29, 2025
The images coming out of Los Angeles these past few weeks can be difficult to bear, especially for anyone with friends, family and colleagues in the area.
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