Federal Reserve
Will the Fed Spook Commercial Property Prices?
Jim Costello / October 18th, 2017Everybody and their brother expects that the Federal Reserve will raise rates in December. That’s the known. The unknown is the effect that a rate hike and the unwind of quantitative easing (QE) will...
How Will the Fed Increase Impact Commercial Real Estate?
Jim Costello / March 16th, 2017The impact of the Federal Reserve’s 0.25% interest rate increase on investors is unclear. However, for lenders this environment of increasing short-term rates presents challenges to their profitability....
RCA Insights: Most Popular of 2016
Simon Mallinson / January 6th, 2017Since Real Capital Analytics introduced the RCA Insights blog in 2016 our expert authors have covered a diverse range of commercial real estate topics, from cross-border capital out of South Korea to bargain...
Following Fed and Election: Where Next for Cap Rates?
Jim Costello / December 15th, 2016Despite initial excitement over the very notion that the Federal Reserve was raising interest rates, the market responded in a moderate manner yesterday with minor movement in the 10yr UST. Little wonder,...
How Safe Are Lenders?
Jim Costello / September 2nd, 2016At the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance conference in Beijing this week, Federal Reserve Presidents Eric Rosengren and Charles Evans discussed the Fed’s interest rate policy. President Rosengren...
