HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ-Attendees at the third annual RealShare Industrial East conference here yesterday heard their market draw appellations ranging from “always steady” to “sexy.” Indeed, the 250 attendees at the conference also saw their chosen market defined by the terms of increasing shifts.

“The industrial market is interesting right now,” said Michael Desiato, group publisher and editorial director for Real Estate Media, producers of the conference and publishers of GlobeSt.com. “It’s always been a steady market, but right now it’s vibrant, even sexy,” Desiato said, opening the event.

“It’s a good time to be in industrial real estate,” concurred Michael McKiernan, national director of industrial brokerage for Cushman & Wakefield, a panelist for the conference’s Town Hall Meeting outlook session. Citing positive absorption and a national industrial vacancy rate of 7.2%, the lowest in six years, he termed it “a significantly positive market.”

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