NEW YORK CITY-On the heels of Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US debt and a week-long rollercoaster ride in the American stock markets, the commercial real estate industry continues to look for clues about what to expect next. It’s made the most recent Global In-Sights podcast from CB Richard Ellis, “US Debt, Deficit and Real Estate,” timely and reflective of the changing nature of the events.

The podcast, hosted by global chief economist Raymond Torto and head of research Asieh Mansour, both of the global research team at CBRE, looks at the effect of recent events on commercial real estate.

First up, is the downgrade. Torto and Mansour discuss why it occurred. “The downgrade itself was not a surprise,” Mansour says, before outlining the three reasons that she believes it took place.