CRE Content Round-Up: Lobby CRE’s Top Blogs for 2023

The end of another year is here! As we prepare for the months ahead, our team took some time to reflect on recent commercial real estate (CRE) industry trends, shifts, and highlights and pulled out some of our favorite content on these topics.

Below, we curated a list of our top 5 blogs of 2023. See if your favorites made the list!

1.  The Recalibration of CRE: The Who, What, When, Why, and How

The commercial real estate market is in the midst of a recalibration as a result of rising interest rates, widening cap rates, and other effects of recent market shifts. These shifts are causing CRE owners, borrowers, and investors to rethink their cashflow management strategies to change with the market rather than against it. The recalibration of CRE may differ from the norms of the traditional commercial real estate cycle; however, this shift can create new opportunities for CRE firms to assess their portfolio and adjust their cashflow management strategies. 

In this blog, we define the recalibration of CRE, when it’s expected to occur, who it impacts, and how to prepare.

2. CRE Cash Flow: 3 Operational Factors That Can Impact Profitability

CRE cash flow is critical to meeting and exceeding financial obligations, expectations, and growth projections across your firm. Essentially, cash flow dictates your property’s and portfolio’s performance. Positive cash flow creates opportunities to grow the portfolio and can produce faster returns to the sponsor and investor(s). On the other hand, negative cash flow can drain your resources and impact portfolio growth.

In this blog, we define commercial real estate cash flow, identify factors that could be impacting your firm’s profitability, and provide five tips to help you maximize CRE cash flow.

3. CRE Asset Management Software: Need-to-Have or Nice-to-Have?

Asset management software is a buzzword that is making waves throughout the commercial real estate  space. As disruption continues throughout the industry, you’ll hear opinions from both novices and industry experts about CRE technology. For some, CRE technology is still a foreign concept. And to others, tech adoption is a core component of their organization’s strategy and growth.

In this blog, we explore whether asset management software is actually worth the investment or simply a “nice-to-have”.

4. Asset Management Software: Benefits for Each Role in Your CRE Firm

With benefits that include enhanced portfolio visibility and automated reporting, CRE asset management software addresses many of the common pain points CRE firms experience when analyzing and optimizing their assets.

This blog highlights how asset and portfolio managers, property managers, finance/accounting managers, and C-suite executives can use asset management software to reduce manual processes, improve productivity, enhance portfolio performance, and more.

5. 4 Recession-Proof CRE Assets to Consider During Market Shifts

When faced with the potential of declining portfolio performance and values, many investors’ initial response is to consider backing out in order to protect their investments from any further market declines. However, during times of market volatility, focusing on both short- and long-term strategies, reassessing a portfolio’s tolerance for market risk, and identifying opportunities to diversify the portfolio through asset allocation are all strategic moves that should be evaluated.

This blog shares four assets that have historically performed well during market downturns.

Although we’ve selected only five top blogs for the year, all of our content is pretty great. Visit our resource center to view our full catalog of commercial real estate content.