LOS ANGELES—Last week, Richard Barkham, global chief economist and head of Americas research at CBRE, served as opening keynote at the GlobeSt. Net Lease Fall 2022 national event and said that we are in for a hard landing. He also spoke about real estate and said that investment sales are dropping very quickly and believes they have further to drop.
"The Fed is very nervous about a big price drop in US real estate," he explained. "There has been some central bank action behind the scenes and there is a period of price discovery in the marketplace."
On the capital front, he said that while it is available, it is at a higher cost and more selective. Cap rates are also on the rise but it is across all sectors, he explained. "We don't quite know where it will settle out because we don't quite know where interest rates will settle out," he said, but for those well capitalized, he said that "this is an opportunity."
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