“Retail has never been more interesting than it is right now and it’s never been harder,” says Deb Carlson, a director in the Twin Cities office of real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. “The roles are out the window. Everyone is sitting back and saying, ‘How do I tweak what I’m doing?’” NREI asked retail real estate experts what might await the industry in 2020. Here are their top predictions.

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The combination of strong fundamentals, low interest rates and intense interest from investors should make for another white hot year for the multifamily sector. Although 2020 faces its fair share of uncertainty with worries of a potential recession, a volatile geopolitical picture and ongoing trade wars, investors looking for low-risk returns could still flock to the sector.

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The next 12 months are likely to be busy for investors in single-family rentals (SFR). “The SFR market is active, both for institutional, as well as retail investors,” says Gary Beasley, CEO of Roofstock, an online platform for buying and selling SFR properties. After years of sitting on the sidelines, SFR investors are once again in buying mode, in addition to building new single-family properties to operate as rentals.

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Although the commercial real estate industry has generally been slow to adopt technology, that is starting to change, particularly on the brokerage side of the business. Sell-side brokers are increasingly listing their properties, for sale as well as for lease, with LoopNet and similar online platforms that supplement these listings with property information culled from a variety of public and private sources. These sites have become popular with prospective buyers and tenants alike. Will these and other innovations lead to the disintermediation of the commercial real estate powerhouses?

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