Episode 268: Recovery for Economy and Commercial Real Estate Backloaded to Second Half of 2021

While an economic recovery is expected to take hold, benefitting commercial real estate in its wake, any significant improvement is likely to occur starting in the second half of 2021, according to Nareit Senior Economist Calvin Schnure.Speaking on the REIT report, Schnure highlighted some of the key themes of Nareit’s 2021 Outlook for REITs and Commercial Real Estate.Schnure noted that “we’re going to see some strengthening of the economic recovery and that’s going to benefit the commercial real estate markets quite a bit.” However, the improvement will really be driven by vaccines bringing the pandemic under control, which is not expected before the second half.