Fits and Starts for Commercial Real Estate Volume

The commercial real estate recovery, like the rest of the economy, had a late spring slowdown. “We had a strong first quarter and a softer second quarter as investors became concerned about sovereign debt issues,” says Janice Stanton, senior managing director of Capital Markets for commercial real estate broker Cushman & Wakefield.

Commercial real estate brokers and researchers see a similar stall in momentum. The strongest activity is still confined to a few large cities, but large parts of the rest of the country are still working out the wreckage of the real estate crash.  (NREI) READ MORE…