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Commercial real estate professionals live and breathe capitalization rates. Every trade publication, market participant, and third-party report relating to real estate quotes cap rates for various markets and properties. But ask a group of real estate professionals to calculate a specific property’s cap rate and you are likely to get a variety of answers — despite the simplicity of the formula. If cap rates are widely used and easily calculated, then why does everyone come up with a different answer?
On behalf of Urban Land Institute (ULI), an internationally recognized commercial real estate non-profit, we invite you to review The Investors Guide to Commercial Real Estate. Commercial real estate is recognized as an attractive asset class by institutional investors because of its high cash-flow stream, diversification benefits, and potential to hedge inflation.
The evolution of crowdfunding as a new investment vehicle in the US real estate industry has been remarkable in the past few years. Since the JOBS Act was passed into law in 2012, platforms specializing in crowdfunding real estate projects have mushroomed across the country.
Understand why commercial real estate is an attractive asset class for your portfolio. Read Urban Land Institute's Investor's Guide to Commercial Real Estate.
It’s been years since the climate for investment in commercial real estate has been this favorable—property fundamentals are improving, construction pipelines are just revving up and interest rates remain at historically low levels (at least for now).
Any savvy investor knows that reading a stock summary or private real estate investment offering memorandum comes with its own unique metrics. All investments are not cut from the same cloth and there is a bit of a learning curve to get up to speed on different industry terms.
With quantitative easing behind us, low interest rates are next on the chopping block. If low interest rates and QE are not a serious economic distortion, why is the Fed so insistent that they must eventually be reversed?