Industry experts are predicting a continued increase in commercial real estate investment activity for 2025, according to DLA Piper’s 2024 Year-End Real Estate Trends Report for the United States. After a rough 2024 where many investors believed the commercial real estate market was at rock bottom, the commercial real estate market is looking up in the year ahead.
Investors were focused on many of the same sectors as 2023, with housing, industrial and medical office taking the lead. After making a comeback in the second half of 2024, the housing industry saw large investments in apartment/condos/planned unit development (PUD), student housing and senior housing. It outperformed 2023 volume by 1 percent, from 39 percent to 40 percent.
Office properties were up by 3 percentage points from 2023, and data centers increased by 4 percent in 2023 to 9 percent in 2024. Mixed-use and retail properties both saw increases as well. Hotel, medical offices and industrial