Commercial Property Executive’s latest monthly poll asked readers about their planned investment alternatives, at a time of deflated transaction volumes and shortages of available capital for investments in nearly all asset classes.
More than half of respondents identified distressed assets as their biggest area of interest, at a time when the office and retail sectors suffer from both latent and acute struggles.
Often, the deals that do take place for distressed properties include some form of longer-term investment in a redevelopment or substantial capital improvements. For their part, some distressed office assets are being converted to multifamily housing or are undergoing vast amenity-focused capital improvement projects, while many recent high-profile retail investments have included some form of redevelopment plan.
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