February 14, 2023

City of Industry, California-based Cubework.com Inc. has signed a lease for 100% of the 915,000-square-foot building called Cotton 303 Logistics Center in the Phoenix metro. Cotton 303 is located on the southeast corner of

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Bank loans for commercial real estate hit a record high in the final three months of 2022, but those lenders also set aside more money to cover potential losses from that financing amid recession fears. For all U.S. banks, fourth-quarter loans

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Arizona’s housing shortage is straining many renters’ budgets and forcing too many out of their homes. The state’s population has grown faster than the construction of homes and apartments since the Great Recession, and the resulting shortage pushed

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February 13, 2023

In CPE’s latest monthly poll, commercial real estate professionals were asked about their thoughts on when the financing of new deals, as well as transaction volumes could reach more productive levels. The results reveal a

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Consumers continued to spend in January even amid inflation and an uncertain economic environment. U.S. retail sales (excluding automotive) rose 8.8% year-over-year in January, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which reports on

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A proposed East Valley business park could employ up to 10,000 people. California-based Shopoff Realty Investments is proposing The Block on Elliot at Elliott and Sossaman roads in southeast Mesa. Shopoff acquired the nearly

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Toward the end of 2022, the real estate market started to experience a leveling out period due to high mortgage rates. The increase in rates resulted in lower home costs and increased inventory. Now, as people are looking to invest in 2023, they

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Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs will cast a spotlight on one of the country’s fastest-growing real estate markets. Most of that growth has been outward rather than upward. Professional football’s

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February 10, 2023

Glendale wasn’t the top destination for guests when the Super Bowl was hosted at State Farm Stadium in 2015 despite its regional draw with two sporting venues and dozens of restaurants, hotels and entertainment offerings.

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Landsea Homes, a publicly traded residential homebuilder, announced today it has closed on 65 homesites and construction will begin immediately on a new neighborhood called Solvida in the Estrella master planned community in

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STR expects Phoenix’s hotel revenue per available room to reach $419 for February 10-12, which the analytics company claims would be the second-highest level for a Super Bowl weekend. The market, which also is hosting the Phoenix Open this week, is

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Back just in 2020—how long is that?—the fear in commercial real estate was palpable. The pandemic was full on. States and cities were closing businesses. Many office buildings became ghost towns. People were without incomes.

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After a decade in the making, the shift in commercial real estate investment away from the major gateway markets to faster-growing areas in the South and West has stalled and even begun to reverse course. U.S. cities in the Sun Belt have

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February 9, 2023

The January 2023 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices from the Federal Reserve has the type of headline results for commercial real estate lending that you might expect: tighter standards and weaker demands across all

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Office visits remain about 60% of what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from Placer.ai. It’s a continuation of a trend the firm observed in both Q3 ad Q4.  

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Downtown living is finally making a comeback after the pandemic-driven flight to the suburbs. But not all downtowns are cut from the same cloth. Some are better than others at getting the right mix of amenities to keep residents engaged

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The struggling Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBY) retail chain has released a new list of 150 more location closures, including two in the Phoenix area, adding to previously announced store shutdowns. The new list includes

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A recent survey of commercial real estate investors ranked Phoenix as a top 10 target among U.S. metros. Phoenix ranks No. 8 among the Top 10 most preferred markets, according to CBRE’s 2023 U.S. Investor Intentions Survey. The survey found that

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February 8, 2023

Rents may be falling but fundamentally multifamily fundamentals are very strong. Widespread distress is highly unlikely to happen; indeed forecasts for the asset class’ long-term growth are quite rosy. But for investors eager to get a cost-effective

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State Farm Insurance, one of the largest Fortune 500 companies with employment hubs throughout the country, is considering subleasing some of its unused real estate, the latest corporate giant to weigh what to do with excess space.

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While there is plenty of debt capital available waiting to deploy, fewer borrowers are willing to transact unless they must and there is an increase in activity from private capital, and regional and local banks from those who do, according to a new report

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Investors pumped $9.68 billion into qualified opportunity zone funds in 2022, bringing the total raised for investing in 8,746 areas federally designated as economically distressed to $34.09 billion since the opportunity zone program launched

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2022 was a complex year for commercial real estate, as rising interest rates created an air of uncertainty in the market, resulting in a deceleration of transaction activity. Despite these headwinds, multifamily fundamentals ended last year on

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February 7, 2023

When it comes to the office industry, 2022 was another entry in a series of transformative years. With work time still shared between home and the office (for most companies), the office building continued to take on the role of an

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There’s an old saying that water finds its level, and usually it means people gravitate toward the like-minded. But there’s another way to take it from physics — that water will move about until pressure and force equalize. It adapts to

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