Commercial Property Values in the U.S. Probably will Climb About 6 %

Commercial-property values in the U.S. probably will climb about 6 percent in the next six months, based on recent trading in real estate investment trusts and fixed-income yields, Green Street Advisors Inc. said.
“The increased optimism being expressed by REIT investors and the decreased skittishness evidenced in the high-yield market should eventually find their way into property valuations,” the Newport Beach, California-based research firm said today in a report introducing its Commercial Property Price Forecast. “That’s a notable improvement over the outlook a few months back.”
Property values were little changed during the past several months after a two-year rally that brought them to within 10 percent of record highs reached in 2007, Green Street said in a Jan. 6 report on its Commercial Property Price Index.


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