Historically low values across property sectors, diminished development pipelines and investment capital waiting on the sidelines combine to potentially make 2025 a particularly compelling year for investment into real estate, according an interview with Shane Taylor, Americas head of research with CBRE Investment Management, published in the June issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas. In the interview, titled “2025 offers an attractive entry point in the property markets,” Taylor points to modern logistics, residential and neighborhood community center retail as especially attractive sectors. Meanwhile, the firm will likely remain underweight in life sciences real estate due in part to the Trump administration. “Even before this new administration came to power,” says Taylor, “there had been quite a spike in the vacancy rate nationally with 2024 ending with a national vacancy rate just over 20 percent. There was just too much new supply delivering that had
