Taking Stock of an Industry in Recovery

NEW YORK CITY-By virtually all accounts, it’s an odd recovery . . . slow, with meager job gains and with a commercial real estate sector that is performing atypically ahead of the greater markets. We reported as much in a recent story on the growth in real estate job postings and how in the months past, they have outdistanced the numbers being reported by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In that article, we posed the question: Is commercial real estate becoming a leading . . . as opposed to the traditional trailing . . . indicator of economic trends. Since that story appeared, we’ve tracked down a number of industry heavyweights to gauge their ideas on the topic.