Spencer Levy cautions that industrial and multifamily will confront short-term supply headwinds, and stresses that retail has been unfairly pummeled.

Lower-quality malls in markets with smaller populations and lower incomes will continue to close—a trend that is underway today, says Suzanne Mulvee, director of research at CoStar.

The good news for property owners is that there are consulting service companies that can act as a single point of contact for these assessments.

Developers built more than 36,000 houses for rent in 2017. That’s 6 percent more than the year before and the largest number of “build-to-rent” houses completed in any year for at least the last 14 years.

Many commercial lenders in 2018 have carved out new policies for pricing discounts on quality industrial properties in core markets.

Tenants today are still less dependent on automobiles than they have been in years past, especially if they live a market where they can walk to amenities.

A recent research report found that about 60 percent of the REIT CEOs analyzed saw their compensation rise by 3.3 percent, based on the median change from 2016 to 2017.

More than a quarter of the apartment loans financed by the GSEs in 2017 qualified for the green incentive programs.

As capital markets have become increasingly crowded, competition to place capital is pushing some lenders to reach down and do smaller balance loans.