Appraisals play a critical role in every commercial real estate transaction. Whether you’re buying, selling, refinancing, or investing, understanding the appraisal process can help you make informed decisions and move forward with confidence.
The U.S. commercial real estate (CRE) market in 2025 reflects a landscape of cautious optimism, driven by steady recovery but tempered by significant financial headwinds. For investors and stakeholders, understanding these dynamics is critical to navigating opportunities and risks in the year ahead.
CRE activity has increased as buyers and sellers have moved closer together on transactions than at any point in the past 18 months. While challenges such as high interest rates, tariff uncertainty, construction costs, and labor issues still persist, many sellers who were waiting for conditions to improve have adjusted their expectations – and pricing – while buyers have found creative ways to close deals.
As we near the second half of 2025, the US retail CRE sector is standing firm—resilient in the face of market disruption, redefined by experience-driven and mixed-use formats, and regionally-driven, with growth clustered in suburban and Sun Belt markets.
As businesses and individuals generate massive amounts of data, the demand for data center real estate has surged, creating both opportunities and challenges in the commercial real estate (CRE) sector.
The U.S. office market showed promising signs of recovery during Q1, with increased leasing activity and renewed investor interest signaling a potential turnaround.
A massive push in recent months to encourage—or force—workers back into the office stirred optimism within the commercial real estate industry about the office sector’s recovery.
As real estate costs in primary markets continue to rise, more investors are eyeing secondary and tertiary markets for new opportunities.
As the industrial commercial real estate (CRE) market evolves into 2025, technological advancements will continue to be the primary catalysts of change.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of efficiency and personalization in commercial real estate (CRE).
