© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report The Commercial Leading Indicator is made up of many different factors, which, when analyzed together, give a very dependable picture of the overall market.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Construction spending on commercial properties is only off slightly.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Unlike the residential market, the commercial market is largely dependant on job growth.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Overall, commercial sales volume is at pre-2006 levels.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Office building sales volumes are down to pre-2006 levels.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Industrial sales volumes are also down.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report The retail market is also at pre-2006 levels.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Oddly enough, multi- family sales volume is down as well. This is due to the “shadow” rental market. Owners of residential real estate who cannot sell their properties are putting them on the rental market.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Commercial loan defaults are well under control at approximately 2.2%. This means that the fundamentals behind the deals are sound.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Nationally, office market numbers are sound. There are pockets of the country where vacancy rates are high, but in most parts of the country the office market is holding its own.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Office vacancy rates are up slightly, topping out at about 13.2% nationally. If certain under- performing markets, such as those in southern California, Florida and Michigan are removed, the vacancy rate declines.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Office rents are still growing, albeit at a slightly reduced rate than a year ago.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report The industrial vacancy rate is remaining steady at about 9.6% nationally.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Industrial rent growth is down slightly, but holding strong.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report The most recent numbers available for industrial cap rates are from the end of last year. Chances are, that if we looked at industrial cap rates today, they would be up from this level due to a decrease in prices.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Retail completions are down, but projected to increase by the end of this year. Absorption is down slightly, but still healthy.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Retail vacancy rates rose as the residential subprime meltdown heated up, but have recently begun to rebound, and are now actually falling.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Retail rental growth is down, but still positive. The lower rental growth rate is helping to keep the retail vacancy rate down.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report As retail rental growth rates slowed, cap rates rose.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Multi-family completions are remaining steady, as is absorption.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Multi-family has the lowest vacancy rate of all the property types at the moment. This is obviously due to the foreclosure crisis the U.S. economy is now experiencing.
© 2008 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NRT Mid-Atlantic 2008 Mid-Year Commercial Report Strong demand for rentals has allowed rents to grow at the highest rate in years.