Despite the widespread perception that brick-and-mortar retail is on the decline, the numbers say otherwise. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) recent emerging trends survey, the long term growth rate for traditional retail sales has remained at a steady 4 – 4.5%. Although the industry is changing, the retail landscape is still strong. Here’s how it is changing, why it’s changing, and what to watch in 2018.

It took about 7 years from the height of the housing collapse for primary markets to rebound. Until 2016, they were still exceeding the appreciation rates of secondary markets, but then secondary markets surpassed them in the second half of 2016 and continue to outpace primary markets.

NAI Global recently revealed that during 2017, it added 15 new office locations and that those investments are already beginning to pay off. Nine of the new locations are in U.S. markets, while six of them are international.

The “Silver Tsunami” is coming by 2030 and in some places, it has already begun. Americans born during and directly following the end of WWII, commonly referred to as Baby Boomers, represent the second largest age demographic group in the U.S. behind millennials. As this massive group moves toward retirement, it is signaling big changes for multi-family buildings of the future.

Pharmaceutical firms and the life sciences sector have been driving significant activity in the Princeton/Central New Jersey submarket for several years, but the market has slowed down considerably since 2016, and the service/business/legal sector have overtaken health sciences as the fastest expanding office sector, according to new research by NAI Fennelly, which has offices in Hamilton and Princeton.

Experts predict that next year, online retail sales will almost reach $3 trillion. Predictions for brick-and-mortar retail have been dwindling over the last decade but expect big changes to reverse that trend as well. What will the retail 2018 landscape look like? Here’s what you can expect.

If you followed our blog this year, you will have been ahead of the times on some of the biggest changes going on in CRE. These changes are ongoing into 2018 and beyond. So we thought it would be important to go over some of those game changing blogs we’ve written over the year in case you have missed something.

When Thomas Friedman published his seminal book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, in 2005, his analysis of globalization described a new world order of commerce wherein all competitors have an equal opportunity.

Could you say that you have a solid social media following? If so, are they simply following you or are they actually engaging with you? The answers to these questions will tell you whether or not you need to step up your social media game. If you are underwhelmed by your social media strategy, we have 5 tips to help you make a bigger splash on social media in 2018.

Move over, Motor City and Motown as handles for Detroit, and make way for Momentum City.

The cost to destroy large shipping containers is exorbitant. Instead, they tend to linger in ports, rusting away – that is until now. Some out-of-the-box thinking has found a new use for these monstrosities; turning them into livable spaces. The idea of converting shipping containers into homes, offices, and multi-family developments could be the next big CRE architecture trend.

In June the U.S. economy entered its 96th month of economic expansion, the third longest in U.S. history since 1854.