M&A International Inc. Real Estate M&A and the State of the Commercial Real Estate Markets: Opportunities Abound – 2010
23 September 2010. In this Real Estate Industry M&A Overview "Opportunities Abound", M&A International experts believe the worst is over with credit availability slowly improving and investments increasing.As a core contributor to the recent global economic slowdown in 2008–2009, the real estate sector was one of the most affected. The downturn had a serious impact on real estate transactions. Reduced demand resulted in a decline in capital and rental values in many markets, restricted construction spending and led to higher vacancy rates. However, with slowly improving economic growth and investor sentiment as well as easier liquidity conditions, real estate transactions in most markets have shown signs of stabilizing or improving since Q3 2009.
As global economic growth accelerates over the next two years, we believe attractive opportunities will be available for investors seeking to enter or expand their real estate portfolio. Under commercial real estate, we expect the offices segment to first experience renewed investment activity as rising economic growth and declining unemployment rates stimulate leasing demand. Retail real estate will probably lag behind investments in the offices segment due to already higher vacancy rates and because consumer spending generally lags behind the economic recovery and higher employment. The industrial segment, that remained relatively resilient throughout the downturn, is expected to continue its moderate growth.
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