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- Quick Hits | High Construction Costs Favor Owners of Existing Buildings October 22, 2026The wide gap between property values and replacement costs matters for more than today’s pricing. High construction costs make new development harder to justify, limiting future supply and improving the long-term income outlook for existing properties. Contractor bid prices rose 5.3% in the year through August, while the Fed’s September hike keeps construction loans expensive. […]Rachael Rothman
- Top Trends Shaping Healthcare Real Estate: Insights from the 2026 Colliers National Healthcare Conference October 15, 2026Colliers hosted its National Healthcare Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, October 7-9, 2026. The conference brought together healthcare providers, investors, developers, and industry experts to explore the forces shaping healthcare delivery, real estate strategy, investment activity, and market performance. The key takeaways shared below capture the most important trends discussed throughout the event, including the continued […]Marianne Skorupski
- Quick Hits | As Office Prices Reset, the Next Buyer May Already Be in the Building October 15, 2026As office prices reset, one buyer is showing up more often: the tenant. This trend comes as owners face pressure to resolve challenged properties. Office investment hit a 10-year high in 2025, and lenders are moving away from “extend and pretend.” That shift is evident at Chicago’s Aon Center, where the special servicer “unequivocally denied” […]Rachael Rothman
- Market Insights | U.S. Industrial Q3 2026 October 14, 2026Explore the latest key statistics and Colliers’ outlook for the U.S. industrial market. Click the data you want to review or scroll.Craig Hurvitz
- Market Insights | U.S. Office Q3 2026 October 14, 2026Explore the latest key statistics and Colliers’ outlook for the U.S. office market. Click the data you want to review or scroll.Marianne Skorupski
- How Walmart Puts Its Stores to Work October 14, 2026Walmart’s enduring advantage is its ability to combine deep physical-retail expertise with emerging innovations and scale them through its own principles of value, convenience, and accessibility. Founded by Sam Walton in 1962, Walmart was built on a practical understanding of how to operate stores efficiently, source merchandise at scale, and deliver consistently low prices to […]Anjee Solanki
- U.S. Retail Demand Accelerates as Consumers Remain Selective | U.S. Retail Q3 2026 October 12, 2026Retail fundamentals strengthened during the third quarter of 2026, supported by accelerating tenant demand, limited new supply, and continued consumer engagement with physical stores. Despite persistent inflationary pressures and economic uncertainty, retailers continued to expand and backfill available space, reinforcing the sector’s resilience as shoppers prioritized value, convenience, and experiences. National retail vacancy declined 10 […]Nicole Larson
- Quick Hits | Rising Bond Yields Test Commercial Real Estate’s Income Advantage October 7, 2026As bond yields rise, so do investors’ return expectations for commercial real estate. Higher Treasury yields limit cap rate compression, as Colliers noted in August, while Green Street recently argued that bonds now look more attractive than property. The question is which property types still offer more income than bonds. Through August, office averaged a […]Rachael Rothman
- Quick Hits | MSCI August Update: M&A Lifts Deal Volume as Individual Asset Sales Soften October 1, 2026Pricing trends and transaction activity continue to shape how the market evolves. At Colliers, we analyze these signals to interpret shifts across U.S. commercial real estate. Here’s what the latest MSCI data reveals. August’s headline figures masked a bifurcated market. Entity-level transactions inflated overall volume. When stripped of those deals, individual asset sales contracted sharply […]Rachael Rothman
- Gaining the Edge: Insights from Colliers’ 2026 National Industrial Conference September 30, 2026Colliers’ 2026 National Industrial Conference brought almost 900 industrial real estate professionals, clients, and industry leaders together in Nashville to explore the forces shaping the next phase of the industrial market. Throughout the events, discussions focused on the market’s transition toward the next growth cycle, shifting occupier and supply chain strategies, emerging sources of demand, […]Craig Hurvitz
- Quick Hits | Net Lease REITs Pick Up the Pace as Spreads Tighten September 23, 2026Transaction activity remains one of the brightest spots within commercial real estate. Net lease REITs continue to benefit from healthy tenant fundamentals, robust acquisition activity, and favorable access to capital. Second-quarter acquisition volume rose roughly 60% year over year, while stronger tenant health reduced expected credit losses and lifted same-property NOI growth forecasts. However, acquisition […]Steig Seaward
- Quick Hits | Stable Delinquencies Mask Refinancing Stress September 16, 2026The CMBS delinquency rate was essentially unchanged in August, slipping one basis point to 7.85%, according to Trepp. However, the underlying story remains one of persistent credit stress rather than improving fundamentals. While several large loans cured during the month, new maturity-related defaults, particularly in the office sector, continued to offset improvement. Non-performing matured balloon […]Steig Seaward
- I.CON Cold Storage Recap: Flexibility, Adaptability, and the Future of Cold Storage September 16, 2026The cold storage market is at an interesting turning point. After the pandemic-era surge in demand, the market has gone through a significant reset. Investors are becoming more selective, and some markets still have excess supply. The outlook from Wall Street is cautiously optimistic: the market may have reached the bottom, but recovery is likely […]Shawn Machado
- Designer Dorms: How a Tiny Room Became a Big Retail Opportunity September 11, 2026College students and their families are expected to spend a record $103.5 billion on back-to-college purchases in 2026, the first time the survey has put college spending above $100 billion. Dorm and apartment furnishings account for $14 billion of that total, second only to electronics. At the household level, the spending is equally telling: a […]Anjee Solanki
- The Lower Manhattan Office Market: A Series of Recoveries September 10, 2026As the Downtown Manhattan — also known as Lower Manhattan — neighborhood comes into focus ahead of the 25th anniversary of September 11, the current state of the Lower Manhattan office market offers a window into the area’s continued evolution and resilience over the past quarter century. With nearly 100.0M SF of office inventory, the […]Franklin Wallach
- Quick Hits | Progress, Not Recovery: Self-Storage Finds Its Footing September 10, 2026After several years of pressure, self-storage fundamentals are beginning to stabilize, though the sector has yet to enter a full recovery. Elevated mortgage rates and historically low home sales continue to weigh on housing-related demand, while resilient occupancy, improving move-in rents, and limited new supply are supporting performance. Demand conditions continue to improve but are […]Steig Seaward
- Evolving Healthcare Project Delivery: Beyond the “Speed, Cost, and Quality” Tradeoff September 9, 2026As the adage goes, can you only get just two? For decades, Design-Bid-Build has been the standard approach to healthcare construction. But today’s healthcare environment looks very different from what it did even a decade ago. Health systems are balancing tighter capital budgets, swelling regulatory requirements, rapidly evolving technology, and more pressure to deliver projects […]Ron Goodin
- Industrial Tenant Tracker — Broad-Based Occupancy Growth Accelerates, Led by the Largest Spaces September 8, 2026Industrial occupiers continued to build momentum in the first half of 2026, supported by an uptick in new leasing, strong build-to-suit development, and user purchases. New bulk industrial occupancies of 100,000 SF increased to 221M SF through June, 25% higher than 177M SF during the same period last year. Demand, as measured by net absorption, […]Craig Hurvitz
- ICSC Florida 2026: Top 10 Takeaways from Colliers on Data, Digital, and the Deal September 3, 2026The ICSC Florida 2026 convention in Orlando brought together more than 4,500 retail real estate professionals from across the state for three days of discussions on technology, leasing, investment, development, and consumer behavior. While the topics varied, several themes surfaced repeatedly: data is becoming central to decision-making, retailers and landlords are finding new ways to […]Haley Boatright
- Quick Hits | MSCI July Update: CRE Sales Hold Steady Amid Uneven Sector Performance September 2, 2026July’s sales activity remained relatively stable, but the topline tells only part of the story, with varied sector-level performance and continued pressure on pricing. Office Office stood out as one of the few sectors to post meaningful growth in July. Sales totaled $7.6 billion, up 31% year over year, with CBD volume rising 46% and […]Steig Seaward