Thought Leadership

A compelling case is made for investing in secondary and suburban markets, which remain below peak valuation and present protection against a possible market correction. Ultra-high net worth (HNW) investors and family offices remain challenged to achieve acceptable risk-adjusted returns amid the current robust economic cycle. U.S. commercial property prices have broadly surpassed the previous peak, impacting yields on core, core plus and value-add assets, especially in primary markets.

Private lenders may have the solution for the sector’s ‘sweet spot’ projects Chatter within the commercial real estate industry suggests we have reached, if not surpassed, the crest of the current market cycle, but the industrial sector is stronger than ever. According to JLL’s 2017 industrial outlook report, vacancy rates on the West Coast are between 1 percent and 5 percent. With no signs of oversupply, or any economic, retail or logistical trends that point to a reverse in course, investors and developers continue to seek construction loans for industrial projects, while lenders remain open to working with commercial mortgage brokers and their clients within this space.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA—The CRE finance market is watching to see whether the Trump administration will advocate changes to Dodd-Frank and how those changes could impact the securitization and banking side of the market, Buchanan Street’s Matt Doerr tells GlobeSt.com. The commercial real estate finance market is watching to see whether the Trump administration will advocate changes to Dodd-Frank and how those changes could impact the securitization and banking side of the market, Buchanan Street Partners VP Matt Doerr tells GlobeSt.com.

Expect millennial workers to return (if they ever really left) to where they were raised Housing affordability and quality public schools are driving factors Millennials will favor submarkets that offer elements of the CBD’s they are leaving Transit-oriented communities allow workers to keep a foot in both worlds Workspaces that replicate contemporary urban style will be preferred Much has been written about the so-called “Millennial” or “Generation Y” worker. Demographers have failed to pin precise dates on when this generation of people begins and ends, but generally the millennials are considered to be those born between the early-1980’s and the late-1990’s. The term “millennial” is believed to have been coined to refer initially to those graduating from high school around the turn of the millennium. Today, the millennial office worker ranges from those preparing to graduate college and take their place in the workforce to vice presidents in their mid-30’s.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA—As the CMBS market continues to slow, how will the capital markets sector be affected? Buchanan Street Partners’ Robert Brunswick weighs in on the subject EXCLUSIVELY with GlobeSt.com. Much has been reported about the CMBS market continuing to slow, plateau, freeze—fill in your own verb. GlobeSt.com spoke exclusively with Robert Brunswick, CEO of Buchanan Street Partners, to get his take on how this trend is affecting the capital-markets sector now and in the future.

Last year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) implemented its Regulatory Capital Rules, a new set of directives intended to address regulatory deficiencies that contributed to the 2008 banking collapse. The regulations impose significant limits on bank acquisition, development and construction (ADC) loans, and create an opportunity for loan originators, specifically nonbank lenders, to expand their ADC offerings. The most notable change requires banks to increase the amount of capital set aside for ADC loans that exceed loan-to-completed value standards or do not comply with minimum real-cash equity investments.