Keeping an investment strategy grounded during times of high uncertainty and economic volatility can be a difficult task. John Chang, senior vice president of research services at Marcus & Millichap, says that demographics are an important tool to keep CRE investors pointed in the right direction for the future.
In times of high volatility, some standard advice in equities investing is to avoid panic and knee-jerk responses to price shifts. Even in some large downturns like the global financial crisis, many people watched values falling before their eyes and sold off their holdings. Yet, within a few years, markets returned to their previous heights and then kept climbing.
Chang is a CRE veteran who remembers cycles back to the Dot-com days. Although property prices don’t exhibit the rapid price cycles of stocks, that information that can influence strategies and future plans jitter in similar ways.
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