CARLSBAD, CA—Whether or not the current year proves to be a boom period for the US economy, commercial real estate investors plan to acquire more. That's the topline takeaway from Real Capital Markets' Investor Sentiment Report, which finds that 76.7% of investors would characterize their strategy as buyers.

“Investors across the country continue to see great opportunity and benefit in commercial real estate investing,” says Steve Shanahan, executive managing director with RCM. “Regardless of the product type or whether the strategy is core or value add, the focus is on finding assets that can deliver strong yields that outpace other investment options.”

Looking more closely at the “buyer” majority, 41% of respondents characterized themselves as buyers while 35.3 percent classified their strategy as buying but trending toward hold. Further, nearly half (48.4%) of investors say their investment strategy has not changed in the last 12 months, while 16.5% said they are even more of a buyer now than they were a year ago.