Commercial real estate investors are trying to stay ahead of the pandemic with predictions about which sectors and which markets are best positioned to withstand its negative impact. One common calculation to find these resilient cities is to not only look at their economic statistics but more importantly also cull health data and the impact of the stimulus.
But there are more ways to slice and dice the available data. New research from Nuveen Real Estate has ranked the top 50 cities and their expected performance through the end of 2020.
Its model found that cities with higher concentrations of industries such as technology, life sciences and telecommunications, as well as those that are less reliant on the energy sector and government employment appear poised for relative outperformance.
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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.
