Inflation, Geopolitical Conflict Make CRE Look Better Than Ever

It’s a good time to be in commercial real estate, at least according to DLA Piper’s Global Real Estate Annual State of the Market Survey. With trouble in the world and the economy, CRE attracts a lot of attention not in spite of concerns, but because of them.

“People tend to like hard assets both in times of inflation and when there’s geopolitical conflict, so  I think all of that bodes well for real estate on a macro level,” John Sullivan, US chair and global co-chair of DLA Piper’s real estate practice, told Nareit’s REIT Report podcast. “And I think it means that the private equity funds and the endowments and the big institutional and governmental non-US investors are going to continue to have a big appetite for commercial real estate.”