ORLANDO-It's been about 90 days since the subprime lendingmarket collapsed and the subsequent credit squeeze. Now, commercialpractitioners are anxiously awaiting the trickle down. The goodnews is that most experts at the RealShare Central Floridaconference, held at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, agree that thecommercial market in Central Florida will see some dampening, butnowhere near the doom and gloom that some may have feared.

According to conference speakers, the subprime collapse hascaused decisionmakers to pause, but “the sky is not fallingcompletely,” said Keith Tickell, executive vicepresident-development for Flagler Development Co. “There are somecracks, underwriting is more difficult now and companies arere-evaluating some of their building starts, but the slowdown isjust temporary,” said Tickell.

“It's much tougher to close deals that were under contractbefore the credit crunch,” adds Larry Richey, senior managingdirector of Cushman & Wakefield, Tampa and Orlando.