The Portland Metro Area (PMA) apartment market was experiencing low vacancy trends (5% and below in most areas) and increasing rental rates from 2005 through late 2008. Since that time; however, the rental market has seen steady decline in rental rates and increases in concessions and vacancy due to the national recession that has seen [...]
Archive for August, 2009
18
Aug
2009
Portland Apartment Market Trends
Tags: Appraisal, Assessor, CAP Rates, capitalization, Commercial Real Estate, Economics, MAI, News, PGP Valuation, Portland, Unemployment, Vacancy
06
Aug
2009
Impact of the Recession on Values of Gas Station / C-Stores
By: Ben Wilcox, MAI
The impact of the recession and financial crisis on commercial real estate has been widely reported. With securitized lending out of the picture and banks less able to lend, purchase financing has been more difficult to obtain and available in smaller quantities. This has led to a slowdown in sale transactions for [...]