04.05.2022
Here’s One Way to Avoid Taxes If the 1031 Is Eliminated
REITs offer a strategy to do a type of swap without triggering a tax event. Commercial real estate professionals got worried in 2021 when the Biden administration floated its proposals to cut big tax reduction strategies, including…
Read More04.04.2022
March 2022 Commercial Market Trends
View a New Mexico Market Trends Summary Report, which includes March 2022 Commercial Market Trends. This report includes the total number of listings, asking lease rates, asking sales prices, days on the market and total square feet…
Read More04.04.2022
Single-Tenant Net Lease Cap Rates Drop to Record Low
A Boulder Group report cites cap rate compression in all retail, office and industrial assets. Cap rates in the single tenant net lease sector reached historic lows for all three asset classes in the first…
Read More04.02.2022
Are Multifamily, Industrial Price Increases Enough to Hedge Inflation?
With overall inflation and growing expenses, how much is enough? To say that multifamily and industrial sectors are hot is like noticing heat at the equator. Did anyone not already notice? The National Association of…
Read More04.01.2022
BlackRock President: Get Used to Scarcity Inflation
Rob Kapito tells “a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice” that shortages will keep driving up prices. BlackRock President Rob Kapito says “scarcity inflation” is driving the US economy, as shortages of…
Read More03.28.2022
New Mexico Cannabis Industry Divided Over Market Saturation Fears
Arizona had about 73 adult-use dispensaries licensed when recreational sales began at the start of 2021. Colorado had 156 licensed retail stores in 2014 when their sales began, according to data from the state’s Marijuana…
Read More03.23.2022
Brownfields Program
LAND RECYCLING PROGRAM FOR PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTIES TO IMPROVE PROPERTY VALUE, ATTRACT INVESTMENT, AND CREATE JOBS PROGRAM OVERVIEW Bernalillo County has received a $600,000 brownfield assessment grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
Read More03.23.2022
The Great Wait? Or The Great Return?
Service-Oriented Firms Lead the Way While Larger Corporations are Holding Back. Is the “Great Wait” for things to return to business as usual finally over, or is COVID-19 still rearing its ugly head? Well, that…
Read More03.23.2022
A Changing Landscape
Landlords and Developers Adapt as COVID-19 Rearranges CRE Landscape As the pandemic heads into its third year, multiple asset classes in commercial real estate are undergoing profound change—some due to COVID-19, others as an acceleration…
Read More03.23.2022
A Shorter Lease On CRE
The gathering optimism over a robust return to the office hit a stumbling block in the closing days of 2021. But indicators so far point to a long-awaited relief from the grip of COVID-19 and…
Read More03.22.2022
New SEC Environmental Disclosure Rules Will Hit CRE Surprisingly Hard
Even if CRE businesses aren’t under SEC disclosure requirements, they may be doing business with companies that are, and that’s going to hurt. After years of discussions and hints, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally…
Read More03.21.2022
A Broken Chain
This ‘Bad News, Good News’ Story is Far From Over Supply chain disruptions have had a direct impact on CRE—not only in port cities, but in any market that relies heavily on warehouses; space has…
Read More03.21.2022
Race For Space
Brokers and Developers Are Getting Creative to Ease Industrial Space Crunch As nationwide vacancy rates for industrial properties keep registering record lows, and pricing for those assets skyrocket, brokers and developers are devising creative strategies…
Read More03.17.2022
Coworking’s Next Act
How and where people work underwent huge changes — could flexible office space see an increase in demand? Prior to the pandemic, coworking facilities were often lauded as a model for the “future workplace.” Third-party…
Read More03.17.2022
Drone Technology Use in Real Estate
Today’s ever-advancing drone technology has facilitated how many industries do business, and the land real estate industry is no exception. While drone tech in particular is not a new development, its use in land real…
Read More03.16.2022
Project Costs Are Changing the CRE Landscape
Developers and operators are having to prioritize spending in new ways. For some time, a lot of commercial real estate news has focused on the pain of macroeconomics—inflation, labor shortages, and supply chain disruptions. According…
Read More03.16.2022
Office Glut has Cities Rethinking Single-Use Downtown
Rezoning downtown cores from offices to mixed use is gaining favor as a post-pandemic model. With record-high office vacancies persisting as the pandemic wanes in the US, a growing number of cities are adjusting single-use…
Read More03.16.2022
March 2022 LIN Properties
At the March 2022 LIN Meeting, 7 excellent properties were presented. Thank you for presenting properties and attending the meeting! View the March 2022 LIN properties here. View the March 2022 LIN Thank Yous here.
Read More03.15.2022
Industrial Developers Shouldn’t Delay Construction As Demand Rages
The Cushman team advises developers to secure long lead items well ahead of time, including roofing, panels, structures, and piping. Industrial developers would be wise to plan ahead—and carefully—as materials constraints continue to plague the…
Read More03.15.2022
7 CRE Risks To Avoid in the Current Volatile Environment
In this tumultuous environment, there are several concerns that investors should reevaluate to assure a successful investment. It appears that the CRE industry is entering a period of high volatility with the Fed promising to…
Read More03.15.2022
NAR Commercial Connections, Spring 2022: Global Ambition
For commercial real estate pros, global ambition is all about bringing more investment dollars home. Learn how brokers are catapulting their small, and mid-size businesses onto the global stage. Also in this issue: Hear from…
Read More03.14.2022
Office Tenants Likely To Make Small Design Changes For Big Impact As Workers Come Back
The vast majority of companies are taking a 'wait-and-see' approach before instituting major design changes to their offices to reflect its new purpose. Corporate office tenants are likely to begin instituting renovations over the next…
Read More03.14.2022
The Case for Office-to-Multifamily Adaptive Reuse
Cost and time reductions in the 15% to 20% range often cited for adaptive reuse. In general, adaptive reuse for commercial buildings is gaining favor due to its potential for higher returns, cheaper materials costs…
Read More03.09.2022
What’s the Opportunity for Office to Industrial Conversions?
One clue: it’s going to be a demolish and build-from-scratch experience. The good news in office space: occupancy has been on the rise. But any CRE professional watching the markets knows about the shoe that next drops—it’s going…
Read More03.08.2022
Demand for Warehouses Lifts Emerging Markets
Half of the US markets tracked by Colliers reported industrial occupancy gains of more than 5M SF in 2021. With industrial warehouse space in major markets nearly filled to capacity, emerging markets are experiencing a…
Read More03.07.2022
Growing Demand Continues to Drive New Data Center Development
The pandemic accelerated the use of digital platforms and cloud services, generating a surge in data center development that is attracting tons of capital. The pandemic helped ramp up data center usage, as businesses suddenly…
Read More03.07.2022
How Office, Retail and Hospitality Can Reposition As COVID Wanes
If COVID is less deadly and less restrictions need to be in place, that is an important shift in thinking. As COVID cases ramp down, the outlooks for office, hotel, and retail are on the…
Read More03.07.2022
Sellers Push for Shorter Due Diligence Periods Amid Supply Chain Issues
Like many companies, third-party diligence companies are feeling the strain of supply chain disruption. It seems that no industry is exempt from the supply chain issues that are plaguing the economy. These challenges are affecting…
Read More03.06.2022
NAR Commercial Real Estate International Business Trends, February 2022
The 2022 Commercial Real Estate International Business Trends report discusses the trends in foreign buyer purchases of U.S. commercial real estate in 2021 in the "small commercial real estate market" (sales of below $2.5 million)…
Read More03.05.2022
NAR Commercial Market Insights February 2022
The recovery in the commercial real estate market that started in the second half of 2021 is continuing into the first quarter of 2022. All core commercial sectors ―multifamily, office, industrial, and retail ―experienced net…
Read More03.04.2022
5 Major Build-to-Rent Trends
Here are some developing themes in the evolving BTR market. Build-to-rent has become an attractive option for investors and developers, outperforming multifamily over the last five years and becoming more important to institutional investors. That makes sense, given…
Read More03.04.2022
Office Landlord Partners with Food Delivery Service
The result is an optional amenity that doesn’t introduce more ongoing cost for the landlord. The FCC recently took an action to promote better multifamily access to broadband by prohibiting profitable revenue-sharing agreements between providers and property…
Read More03.04.2022
NAR Comments on Proposed WOTUS Rule
NAR recently submitted comments, in coordination with a robust coalition of regulated stakeholders, on the Environmental Protection Agency's and the Army Corps of Engineers' proposed rule redefining "the waters of the United States" (WOTUS) under…
Read More03.04.2022
Deal Flow For Multifamily Hitting Record Levels
Also, the share of capital flowing into secondary and tertiary markets has widened considerably. Deal flow for the multifamily asset class has officially hit record levels, as increased competition for assets is pushing investors into…
Read More03.03.2022
Investments During Wartime
“How do you preserve wealth in times when the Four Horsemen are on the loose?” Barton Biggs, the well-known former Morgan Stanley strategist, who sadly passed in 2012, asks an interesting question at the beginning…
Read More03.03.2022
Labor Shortages, Land Availability Will Pressure Industrial in 2022
The future will still rely on highly skilled labor to operate complex systems and machinery, alongside robotics—labor that is increasingly more difficult to find. Labor scarcity will be among the major headwinds driving industrial commercial…
Read More03.03.2022
Race to Build Labs Spurs Exponential Growth in Life Sciences
VC funding is turbocharging a building boom of new lab space, with 31M SF under development in emerging and established markets. A flood of venture capital is turbocharging a building boom for new life-sciences lab…
Read More03.02.2022
March 2022 CCIM Deal Making Session Properties
Thank you to all of the brokers, sponsors, and guests who attended the March 2022 CCIM NM Deal Making Session & Forum and to those who shared their properties. Click here to view source PDF. Click…
Read More03.02.2022
February 2022 Commercial Market Trends
View a New Mexico Market Trends Summary Report, which includes February 2022 Commercial Market Trends. This report includes the total number of listings, asking lease rates, asking sales prices, days on the market and total square feet…
Read More03.02.2022
Single-Family Growth Cools While Multifamily Is Still On Fire
Even for houses, growth rates are still in double digits. Between people looking for more space and major demographic shifts from north to south, housing has been a strong market during the pandemic. That continues,…
Read More03.02.2022
Russian Aggression Could Mean Cyberattacks on CRE Firms
Many firms aren’t normally prepared to deal with malware, and this could be worse. Before the Russian troops and tanks moved into Ukraine, Microsoft got alerts for new malware aimed at government systems in the besieged Eastern…
Read More03.02.2022
Inflation Is Biggest Risk to Economic Recovery This Year, Economists Say
NABE panelists have downgraded their forecasts for growth for this year, with the median forecast for inflation-adjusted GDP at 2.9% Nearly two-thirds of panelists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics predict a downside…
Read More03.01.2022
Review: Updated CIE Rules – Effective 3/15/22
Please Review: Updated CIE Rules and Regulations Read Red-Lined CIE Rules The CARNM Board approved changes to the CARNM CIE Rules and Regulations, which are red-lined. These changes affect CIE participants. We encourage you…
Read More03.01.2022
Expect More Volatility Into 2022 For These Asset Classes
Overall, Moody’s predicts that US GDP will grow at 4.1% this year. Some volatility is expected to persist across the multifamily, hotel, and office asset classes well into 2022, according to new research from Moody’s…
Read More03.01.2022
The Post-Pandemic Office Revolution
“We are not out of the woods yet…” So begins Jones Lang LaSalle’s 2022 outlook. In its research report, the Chicago-based commercial real-estate giant, whose 90,000-plus employees manage investments and property across 80 countries, cites…
Read More02.28.2022
Self-Driving Trucking, E-Commerce Industries Compete for Industrial Space
It’s never easy finding parking, and the fledgling autonomous truck industry is feeling it on a major scale. The advent of self-driving trucks is motivating a land grab for transportation hubs near major cities, particularly…
Read More02.28.2022
Construction Delays Are Hurting Apartment Investors
Delays are scrambling the multifamily development pipeline and cutting into returns for investors. The past two years have brought with them myriad disruptions to the multifamily development pipeline including delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic…
Read More02.24.2022
Apartment Market Expected to Slow in 2022 After ‘Blowout’ Year
In 2022, the need for affordable housing and ESG solutions looms large. After an “absolute record, blowout” 2021, the multifamily market will likely slow down, according to Kevin Fagan, head of CRE Analytics at Moody’s…
Read More02.23.2022
Focusing on the Good News
Although some broader headwinds remain, the outlook for commercial real estate’s outlook remains bright. With the Omicron variant sweeping through the nation in December and January, 2022 started on a sour note. In addition to…
Read More02.23.2022
To Fill Empty Retail Space, Landlords Tap Doctors and Dentists
Health care providers are increasingly opening offices and clinics in street-level storefronts, malls and shopping centers, taking advantage of rents depressed by the pandemic. The next time you get your teeth cleaned or blood pressure…
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