Market Update Blog

April 8, 2015

Equity continues to enter the commercial real estate sector and push down cap rates for net lease properties, according to a new report from the Boulder Group, a commercial real estate firm located in suburban Chicago. After hovering steady at…

April 1, 2015

The real estate financing market took an unexpected turn in 2011 when a Michigan court rendered a decision which called into question whether non-recourse loans are truly non-recourse. The court in that case held that a lender could foreclose on…

March 25, 2015

Overly weak inflation and a lack of evidence suggesting price pressures are about to heat up means the Fed shouldn’t raise interest rates this year, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said in a speech Wednesday. “I think…

March 18, 2015

The financial world is overrun with industry wonks and prognosticators—each with a unique ability to predict the future. You’d be better off consulting the Magic Eight Ball than wasting your time with the typical rhetoric and opinion-based fodder. There is…

With so much buzz around San Francisco and Los Angeles it’s easy to overlook the Sacramento commercial real estate market, but there’s nothing small about the growth and development happening in the Sacramento commercial real estate landscape right now. Vacancies…

March 11, 2015

Articles highlighting strength in the U.S. economy have mushroomed in the past month, supporting a scenario of the first Federal Reserve rate hike in June, according to Société Générale. The investment bank has its own monthly newsflow indicators that count…