Published on 28 Apr 2023 on Financial Post via Yahoo Finance
'50% correction': Why Canada's office real estate sector is heading for a reckoning
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Publicly traded office real estate trusts have seen their values drop precipitously in recent months as a combination of high interest rates and rising vacancies in the wake of the pandemic have sent tremors through the sector. Now Carl Gomez is waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The chief economist at commercial real estate analytics company CoStar said valuations for privately held office real estate assets in Canada, mostly held by large institutional investors such as pensions, are “not adjusting to reality” and face a reckoning that could see their values, too, cut by as much as half.