CCIM releases quarterly market trends for the 1st quarter of 2013.  Although there were economic uncertainties related to the fiscal cliff, 2012 concluded with a deal frenzy of $98 billion in total sales, setting a post-2007 record for the greatest amount of fourth-quarter investment activity.  CCIM’s 1Q13 Quarterly Market Trends report provides insight on major economic drivers and CCIM members’ transaction activity in early 2013.  Compiled by Lawrence Yun, Ph.D., chief economist for the National Association of Realtors®, and George Ratiu, NAR’s manager of commercial and qualitative research, the report provides commercial real estate fundamentals and investment and transaction activity across the U.S.  Click on the link below for the report.

http://www.ccim.com/sites/default/files/2013Q1-ccim-qmt.pdf