Drowning in Data

Article by Parke Chapman Via National Real Estate Investor

Commercial real estate is swimming in data, thanks chiefly to the decade-long rise of public REITs and the growth of the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) markets. As a result, legions of analysts and data gatherers now provide a steady flow of information about occupancies, asking rents, sales per square foot, and so on — for all markets and classes of commercial real estate.

The idea is simple: reliable data and research lures capital since it gives money managers and others a complete picture of what they're buying. The word for this is transparency.

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