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Monday, November 21, 2011

Moody's: Commercial Real Estate Prices declined 1.4% in September

by Calculated Risk on 11/21/2011 06:03:00 PM

From Dow Jones: Moody's: Commercial Real-Estate Prices Fell In September

U.S. commercial real-estate prices fell 1.4% in September, ending a four-month growth streak ... Moody's expects "multi-family and hotel properties to lead the price recovery," said Nick Levidy, Moody's managing director. "Office and retail will lag mostly because of a very high number of vacancies and the burn-off of above-market rent leases."
Below is a graph of the Moodys/REAL Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI) - Beware of the "Real" in the title - this index is not inflation adjusted.

CRE and Residential Price indexes Click on graph for larger image.

CRE prices only go back to December 2000.

According to Moody's, CRE prices are up 1.3% from a year ago, and down about 42% from the peak in 2007. This index is very volatile because there are relatively few transactions - but it does appear to be mostly moving sideways.
All current Commercial Real Estate graphs


Earlier:
Existing Home Sales in October: 4.97 million SAAR, 8.0 months of supply
Existing Home Sales: More on Inventory and NSA Sales Graph
Existing Home Sales graphs