Investment Strategies

A bid/ask gap has emerged between buyers and sellers and real estate investors attempt to navigate the shifting economic climate.

Exclusive research shows that investors expect rising interest rates and other pressures to push cap rates up over the next 12 months.

Ortega’s holding firm Pontegadea has reached an accord to acquire the 64-floor luxury apartment complex for about $500 million. The building was sold by Carmel Partners.

Some buyers are trying to renegotiate prices, but a net result of recent moves could be a tightening in the spread between multifamily cap rates and yields on 10-year Treasuries.

With a shrinking delta in cap rates between assets of different vintage, many investors opt to go with lower risk newer properties and fewer capital expenditures.

For two years, headlines have screamed about a bloodbath in the office sector. Research from Moody’s Analytics shows those headlines have little in common with reality.