TWO INTERESTING REPORTS Two reports just recently released provice some interesting insights and information about commercial real estate in the U.S. The 19th annual report from Integra Realty Resources entitled “IRR-Viewpoint 2009″. contains many statistics and other information about the 4 major sectors of the commercial real estate market – Office, Retail, Apartment and Industrial – in 60 metropolitan areas in the country. It can be downloaded free from their website – www.irr.com The other report is the 2009 National apartment Report by Marcus & Millichap, a major national commercial […]

This article from the National Real Estate Investor compares the performance of rents and vacancy factors in 3 sectors of commercial real estate – apartments, office space and retail space. Apartments are still outperforming the other sectors and should continue to do so in the near future. The Apartment Sector Begins to Feel the Pinch Jan 7, 2009 3:34 PM, By Poonkulali Thangavelu, National Real Estate Investor In a year in which the economy was hit by bad news on a number of fronts, the commercial real estate sector reacted […]