Based on our survey, it’s clear that investors want to pursue new acquisitions.  Seventy-two percent (72%) of respondents say that they are currently reserving and amassing capital for buying opportunities. The majority of investors expect to execute more transactions. More than one in four respondents (28%) say they have already started adding to their portfolios, while an additional 41% say they plan to begin acquiring property over the next six months. Although 2009 was an unusually slow year for investment sales, investors appear to be more optimistic that investment sales will pick up in 2010. Property sales year-to-date through September totaled $12.4 billion, which is a fraction of the $110.6 billion notched during the same period in 2007, according to Real Capital Analytics, a New York-based research firm that tracks office, industrial, retail, apartment and hotel transactions above $5 million.

Alex Zylberglait provides commercial real estate investment advisory as well as research, estate planning, asset allocation, valuation, financing, special assets services, transaction advisory and commercial property acquisition and disposition services.