CRE investors prepare for a busier year of buying, selling in 2025

“The U.S. commercial real estate market saw almost $60 billion in transaction volume in the second quarter, a 31% bump from the the first three months of the year, according to CoStar Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CSGP). And in a third-quarter survey of industry participants by commercial real estate data company Altus Group, the percentage who picked ‘deploying capital’ as a primary focus over the next six months surged 11 percentage points, to 31%, from the previous quarter, when it was 20%. Meanwhile, the percentage of respondents who said they were pausing or de-risking their portfolios dropped 5 and 6percentage points, respectively.“