Is Commercial Real Estate Really In A Recession? Kind Of, Economists Say When the CEO of Boston Properties, the largest publicly traded owner of U.S. office buildings, said last week that “commercial real estate markets are currently in a recession” regardless of the resilience of the broader economy, it reinforced the tired cliché of the past three years: This is an unprecedented market cycle.
When it comes to economic growth or deceleration, commercial real estate has historically been a lagging indicator, taking longer to slow than other parts of the economy, economists told Bisnow. But this time, CRE values are dropping before the job market has cooled and consumer spending has dropped.Even in that context, whether there is a recession… Read the full story here. | | |