Commercial Real Estate Trends & Insights

US Apartment Portfolios Targeted by Non-Traded REITs

Haley Crimmins / May 2nd, 2022

In 2021, non-traded REITs purchased more U.S. multifamily assets than...

Spotlight on the US Student Housing Sector

Haley Crimmins / October 7th, 2021

Student housing cap rates, as measured by the RCA Hedonic Series, crept...

Scorecard: Top Manhattan Office Asset Sales Since 2010

Haley Crimmins / September 24th, 2021

In this post, we rank the highest priced Manhattan office...

Spotlight on Manufactured Housing Acquisitions, Pricing

Haley Crimmins / August 31st, 2021

Sales of individual properties in the U.S. reached the highest levels yet in the...

Chart: Dallas Tops US Construction Markets in Covid Era

Haley Crimmins / May 3rd, 2021

Dallas is booming. The market cemented its position as the #1 U.S. commercial...

Chart: Retail, Hotel Assets Dominate US Distress Inflows

Haley Crimmins / September 29th, 2020

Announcements of bankruptcy or default, tenant distress, or CMBS loans...

Chart: Composition of US Apartment, Hotel Lending

Haley Crimmins / June 26th, 2020

In an RCA Insights post earlier this month, Jim Costello described how CMBS distress...

Chart: US Markets Caught With Construction Into Downturn

Haley Crimmins / April 13th, 2020

NYC Boroughs had the second highest level of construction activity over the last 12 months...

US Retail Optimism May Be Regional

Haley Crimmins / July 1st, 2019

Attendees at one of the largest U.S. retail property conferences earlier this year were hailed with the message that the future for retail is bright. Price trends suggest that...

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Jim Costello

Jim is chief economist on the MSCI real estate research team and is based in New York. He previously led the U.S. research team at Real Capital Analytics, which MSCI acquired in 2021, and spent two decades at Torto Wheaton Research, working in urban economics.

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Tom Leahy

Tom leads European commercial property real estate research, focusing on capital markets. A regular speaker at industry and client events, he is the chief author of quarterly reports on European and global market trends and capital market liquidity.

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Simon Mallinson

Simon heads MSCI’s global real estate research team. Most recently, he led the global analyst group at Real Capital Analytics, which MSCI acquired in late 2021.

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Benjamin Chow

Ben leads research on commercial real estate capital markets for Asia. Based in Singapore, he is the author of the Asia Pacific Capital Trends publication and also leads global commercial real estate transaction pricing indices research.

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Alexis Maltin

Alexis is a leader on the MSCI real estate research team, focused on the U.S. market. Her expertise covers the commercial real estate transaction market, financing and capital flows.

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Benjamin Martin-Henry

Based in Sydney, Ben leads real estate research for the Pacific region at MSCI. He analyzes and comments on market trends and is regularly quoted in Australian media.

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Haley Crimmins

Haley works in MSCI’s real estate research team and is based in New York. Her focus is on the commercial real estate capital markets and she is a key contributor to the firm’s U.S. reports.

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David Green-Morgan

David heads real estate research for MSCI across Asia Pacific. Most recently, he led Asia Pacific research and operations for Real Capital Analytics, which MSCI acquired in late 2021.

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Michael Savino

Michael works in MSCI’s real estate research team and is based in New York. He focuses on commercial real estate capital flows and pricing indices.

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