By The Registry Staff

The Federal Reserve’s newly approved 25 basis point – or a quarter of a percentage point – rate cut is already unleashing pent-up demand in commercial real estate markets, with industry leaders predicting a surge in transaction activity driven more by investor psychology than pure economics. Speaking on a live CBRE webinar immediately following the Fed’s announcement, capital markets executives emphasized that while the rate reduction was largely anticipated, its psychological impact on investment committees could prove transformative for a sector that has endured what James Millon, co-head of capital markets at CBRE, called “a bit of a recession” in commercial real estate.

“It’s not so much, again, the cut itself today,” said Tommy Lee, Millon’s co-head, during the

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