{"id":162,"date":"2026-11-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2026-11-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:00:00","slug":"how-higher-rates-spark-innovation-in-commercial-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/08\/how-higher-rates-spark-innovation-in-commercial-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"How Higher Rates Spark Innovation in Commercial Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The 10-year Treasury yield has stayed near 5%, compressing the spread with commercial real estate cap rates to a record low, especially impacting multifamily and industrial sectors. Cap rates are expected to rise 40-60 bps, causing property values to drop 6-10%. Prime office and retail assets, with wider spreads, will be less affected. Higher rates will reduce investment activity short-term but create opportunities in debt and select sectors. Rates may stabilize and decline by 2027, boosting investment later.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbre.com\/insights\/briefs\/higher-for-longer-rates-implications-for-commercial-real-estate\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10-year Treasury yield has stayed near 5%, compressing the spread with commercial real estate cap rates to a record low, especially impacting multifamily and industrial sectors. Cap rates are expected to rise 40-60 bps, causing property values to drop 6-10%. Prime office and retail assets, with wider spreads, will be less affected. Higher rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}