The relationship between capitalization rates and interest rates is more nuanced than first meets the eye. While nominal interest rates have an impact on real estate values, they do not have the same ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m an investment sales broker and real estate investor based in NYC. If an investor is considering what to look for in a real ...

Ask a broker what they sold a property for, and the answer is just as likely to be a percentage as a dollar figure. Commercial real estate lives and dies by the capitalization rate. The simple ...

Conventional wisdom has long said: where interest rates go, cap rates soon follow. In other words, when the cost of capital is high, so too is the ratio of a property’s net operating income to its ...

It would take a multifamily buyer roughly 26 years to make their money back on a property acquisition in San Francisco at today’s pricing. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the breakeven time shrinks to 16 ...

When investing in multi-family real estate, understanding capitalization rate, usually referred to as CAP rate, is crucial for making informed decisions. This rate serves as a benchmark for evaluating ...

U.S. small-cap stocks have staged an epic rally over the past month with the Federal Reserve set to cut interest rates for the first time since 2020 — but uncertainty on the economic and ...

Senators Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley introduced a bill last week that would cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Banks said a cap that low would significantly decrease the number of people it ...

CRED iQ analyzed underwriting metrics for the latest 10 transactions that have been packaged into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). Our analysis examined cap rates, interest rates and debt ...