Tuesday, January 4, 2011

NYT Says Office Market is Making a Comeback

A new article from the New York Times reports that, for the first time since the collapse of the commercial real estate market, investors are returning with interest in office buildings with some properties commanding prices "reminiscent of the boom years". An excerpt:

Though the market is only now becoming active, last year about $27.7 billion worth of office properties worth $5 million or more had changed hands through mid-December, more than twice the volume in 2009, according to Real Capital Analytics, a New York research firm that tracks sales.

Some deals have been so costly that buyers have had to settle for low initial rates of return of 6 percent or even less. These yields, known as capitalization rates, have fallen faster for office buildings than for any other type of commercial real estate, Real Capital Analytics said.

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