Analysis

Meanwhile those mid-sized markets that saw rents grow rapidly posted just modest increases.

Although capital began to return to the market in the fourth quarter, global investment was down 26% for the year.

With 13.9 million square feet of industrial absorption, 2020 was a record year for industrial activity in Phoenix.

Twenty percent of the chief risk officers at financial institutions surveyed identified credit risk as the top risk they see increasing in importance for their business over the next two years.

It also projects the unemployment rate to gradually decline through 2026 and the number of people employed to return to its pre-pandemic level in 2024.

Moody's Analytics REIS predicts that most of the decline in retail rents and increased vacancies will happen this year.

Data from Placer.ai suggest that these struggling brands can reinvent and revamp in a post-pandemic world.

The NMHC indexes for both sales volume and equity financing improved, but market tightness and debt financing scored below the breakeven level.