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Why Is the Fed Singling Out CRE Prices Now?

WASHINGTON, DC—Prices have been rising almost since the end of the recession. Is there something new?

By Erika Morphy | Updated on July 20, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC—The Federal Reserve Bank’s Semiannual Monetary Report to Congress is, at heart, the presentation of what developments the Fed believes are significant to its decision-making about monetary policy and to a larger extent, the US economy.

So in that respect it should not have been that much of a surprise that the Fed singled out rising commercial property prices as one of the metrics it is watching in its latest report released last week. After all, property valuations and the way these loans were packaged and sold were at the heart of 2008′s financial meltdown.

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