Chad M. FirselCHICAGO—The Federal Reserve's recent shift in interest rate policy has been met with a sigh of relief by the commercial real estate industry. After all as rates rise so do borrowing costs as well as cap rates. Or so the conventional wisdom has gone. In a recent report the Chicago-based Quantum Real Estate Advisors decided to investigate the correlation between cap rates and interest. It found that it may be weaker than many had believed.
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Erika Morphy
Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.
