CBRE has a new report on commercial lending momentum. With an eye to classic movies, it might as well have been called, “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
This is a moment many in CRE have waited for over the last few years. As CBRE put it, lending momentum has accelerated as a “wall of capital” is finally able to meet strong market fundamentals.
The firm’s Lending Momentum Index — a measure of the pace of CBRE-originated U.S. commercial loan closings — increased 37% year over year in Q4 2024, with Q3 2024 up 21% year over year. At the end of Q4, the index was 259, above the five-year pre-pandemic average of 229.
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