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Florida has a history of boom-bust real estate markets but excellent market fundamentals coupled with realistic underwriting and financing analysis will keep the market in equilibrium, according to C&W's Calum Weaver.

Increasing higher paying white-collar jobs are providing essential support to the region's most expensive apartment markets, Berkadia says.

Some $100 billion was poured into the asset class during the past decade, which has been matched by a technical shift and major influence by cloud platform providers–Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

The number of large-scale retail projects are few and far between, however supply is plentiful for value-added projects, strip center and single-tenant net lease developments with growing tenants.

Purchasing a home has become more attractive in many of the nation's largest metros.

In the firm's fourth quarter 2019 report on the Southern New Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania markets, WCRE states that although leasing activity was down overall, vacancy rates remained low and gross leasing absorption was positive.

This year investors should not count on significant appreciation returns, but expect that income returns will remain steady.

C&W projects pressure to remain high on industrial occupancy and rent growth levels across North America.