US commercial real estate will perform better than the country’s volatile sharemarket during the current economic downturn because investors value its intrinsic quality, according to a new CB Richard Ellis report. The study analysed the effect on commercial real estate of the US economic slowdown, the S&P downgrade of the US credit rating and turmoil in the global financial markets.

”While we anticipate continued stockmarket volatility, commercial real estate will not fare as poorly because it remains a preferred asset class, within a well diversified multi-asset institutional portfolio,” said Asieh Mansour, CBRE’s head of Americas Research……………………………………….Full Article: Source