WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This month's CoStar Commercial Repeat Sale Indices (CCRSI) provide the market's first look at November 2012 commercial real estate pricing. Based on 929 repeat sales in November 2012 and more than 100,000 repeat sales since 1996, the CCRSI offers the broadest measure of commercial real estate repeat sales activity.
November 2012 CCRSI National Results Highlights
- NOVEMBER PRICES SEE MEASURED IMPROVEMENT: With the uncertainty surrounding the U.S. elections in investors' rear view mirror, commercial real estate prices notched modest gains in November. The two broadest measures of aggregate pricing for commercial properties within the CCRSI?the value-weighted U.S. Composite Index and the equal-weighted U.S. Composite Index?advanced by 0.9% and 1.1%, respectively.
? - VALUE-WEIGHTED INDEX HITS HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2009: The U.S. Value-Weighted Composite Index, which weights each repeat-sale by transaction size or value (and therefore is heavily influenced by larger transactions), rose 6.2% over the last year and has now increased 38% from its pricing trough in 2010. ?Strong improvement in this index reflects sturdy investor demand for core markets and assets that have been at the forefront of the pricing recovery for commercial property.
? - WITHIN THE EQUAL-WEIGHTED INDEX, THE GENERAL COMMERCIAL SEGMENT ACHIEVES HEALTHY GAINS OVER PREVIOUS YEAR: The Equal-Weighted index weights each repeat-sale equally and therefore reflects the influence of smaller transactions.?While pricing in the General Commercial segment bottomed much later than the Investment Grade segment, the General Commercial Index has made strong gains over the last year and is now up nearly 10% from its nadir in the first quarter of 2011. Recent gains suggest investors are increasingly branching out to second-tier markets and assets, as prices for premium assets in top markets have become extremely competitive. The decline in the Investment Grade Index, on the other hand, is mainly a correction of a seasonal surge in sales activity in prior months.?
? - ABSORPTION GETS BACK ON TRACK:?Aggregate net absorption of available space for three major property types?office, retail, and industrial?picked up in the fourth quarter after a lackluster turn in the third quarter.?The rise in leasing activity stems from healthy absorption in both the General Commercial and the Investment Grade segments, indicating a broader and more sustained real estate recovery.?
? - DISTRESS SALES DECLINE WITH IMPROVING FUNDAMENTALS: The percentage of commercial property selling at distressed prices slid to 14.5% in November 2012, the lowest rate since mid-2009.
Several charts accompanying this release are available at http://media.globenewswire.com/cache/9473/file/17618.pdf
About the CoStar Commercial Repeat-Sale Indices
The CoStar Commercial Repeat-Sale Indices (CCRSI) are the most comprehensive and accurate measures of commercial real estate prices in the United States. In addition to the national Composite Index (presented in both equal-weighted and value-weighted versions), national Investment Grade Index and national General Commercial Index, which we report monthly, we report quarterly on 30 sub-indices in the CoStar index family. The sub-indices include breakdowns by property sector (office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality and land), by region of the country (Northeast, South, Midwest, West), by transaction size and quality (general commercial, investment grade), and by market size (composite index of the prime market areas in the country).
The CoStar indices are constructed using a repeat sales methodology, widely considered the most accurate measure of price changes for real estate. This methodology measures the movement in the prices of commercial properties by collecting data on actual transaction prices. When a property is sold more than one time, a sales pair is created. The prices from the first and second sales are then used to calculate price movement for the property. The aggregated price changes from all of the sales pairs are used to create a price index.
More charts accompanying this release are available at http://media.globenewswire.com/cache/9473/file/17619.pdf
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For more information about the CCRSI Indices, including a detailed methodology, fact sheet, legal notices and disclaimer, and an archive of previous releases, please visit http://www.costar.com/ccrsi.
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This news release includes "forward-looking statements" including, without limitation, statements regarding CoStar's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. These statements are based upon current beliefs and are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements. The following factors, among others, could cause or contribute to such differences: the risk that the trends represented or implied by the indices will not continue or produce the results suggested by such trends; the risk that investor demand and commercial real estate pricing will not continue at the levels or with the trends indicated in this release; the risk that there will not be a broader and more sustained real estate recovery as indicated by the growth in the general commercial index and the rise in leasing activity; the possibility that investor demand for core markets and assets that have been at the forefront of the pricing recovery for commercial property will not continue at the current pace; and the possibility that investors will not continue to increasingly branch out to second-tier markets and assets. More information about potential factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those stated in CoStar's filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including CoStar's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and CoStar's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, under the heading "Risk Factors" section of each of these filings. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to CoStar on the date hereof, and CoStar assumes no obligation to update such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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