Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.
Inflation, interest rates and now a banking crisis. There is little industry consensus about how this critical period in banking will impact the commercial real estate sector, but it has added an additional layer of uncertainty for real estate investors that were already navigating a choppy market.
This year, multifamily investment is expected to fall 15%, but it isn't for a lack of renter demand. Higher interest rates and market uncertainty is upending deals.