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Sign into your accountMarket Watch: The Top Commercial Real Estate Trends for 2018
March 02 2018
With the ups-and-downs of today's crazy economic and political climate, real estate can be complicated, to say the least. As this rapidly changing environment continues to affect the market, look to these commercial real estate trends to point you in the right direction:
Interest Rates
The benchmark lending rate rose in December by 1/4 point, to 1.25 to 1.5 percent. Three hikes for 2018 are projected, with the federal funds rate forecasted for 2.1 percent by the end of the year, and a rate of 2.7 percent projected for 2019. Despite these forecasts, the 10-year Treasury rate has remained stable, indicating the market is not so sure of these rate hikes, and looking to inflation as an indicator of their propensity.