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The market looks to be quite different now than past construction cycles for several reasons, mainly due population gains and uninterrupted, broad-based job growth that totaled 605,857 from 2010 to 2017.

MOBs remain stable but there are shifts in the way that care is being delivered to patients and new tech trends that bear watching.

“Flexibility over the life of a lease is one advantage to unassigned seating, as moves, adds and changes become significantly easier.”

The Urban Institute's HARI measure shows that San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC, are more affordable for local renters than other measures indicate.

Sometimes more amenities come with diminishing returns to sales price, according to a new study by Newmark Knight Frank.

JLL reports that since the fourth quarter of 2017, 77% of the 293 announced retailers opening locations in DC have been dining spots, 15% of which were coffee shops.

STR says the drop can be attributed to the shift from urban to suburban sales and to sales that were outside of the top 25 markets.

So far all of the new supply entering the market, as well as Airbnb, has not had an impact on properties backing CMBS loans, Trepp says. That may change this year.