It's interesting to note that both the price and demand index are still stronger than the past years, painting perhaps a brighter future for investors than other reports. We'll be interested to see the numbers for Q3 and Q4 of 2007 when they're available.

SOURCE: MIT Center for Real Estate

As presented here, the latest results of the Real Capital Analytics commercial property index are now available for the 2nd quarter of 2007.

The monthly national aggregate index continued to show a flat growth rate of 0.89% during June 2007. For the three months ending June, the national office properites index registered the highest rate of return at 3.86%, following by retail at 2.09% and industrial at 1.36%. The national apartment financing index, on the other hand, showed a return of (-) 0.08%.

This summary article offers downloads of transcation charts of apartment, office, industrial, and retail property investments for the second quarter of 2007.

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