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  "title": "Commercial Real Estate in Crisis: Evidence from Transaction-Level Data",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, January 27, 2023",
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  "summary": "During the past two decades, the commercial real estate (CRE) market has been impacted by major disruptions, including the global financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. Using granular data from the U.S.",
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      "heading": "Scope and data",
      "content": "- Focus: commercial real estate (CRE) market dynamics in the U.S. over the past two decades, covering major disruptions including the global financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.\n- Data: granular transaction-level CRE data used to document crisis episodes and heterogeneity in responses."
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      "heading": "Main findings",
      "content": "- Short-run drivers:\n  - Demand-side local factors play a prominent role in the short run.\n  - Significant shifts in preferences occur during crisis episodes.\n- Long-run dynamics:\n  - Valuations become more closely linked to macro-financial factors over the long term.\n- Quantitative impact of financial conditions:\n  - A one-standard deviation tightening in financial conditions is associated with a drop of about 3% in CRE prices in the following quarter.\n  - Sectoral heterogeneity: stronger impact on the retail sector.\n  - Regional heterogeneity: milder effects in states where household indebtedness is lower."
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      "content": "- Uses both reduced-form approaches and a structural framework to identify roles of local demand shocks, preference shifts during crises, and macro-financial linkages."
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      "heading": "Policy-relevant implications",
      "content": "- Crisis response and monitoring should account for strong local demand-side effects in the short run and shifting preferences across crisis episodes.\n- Macro-financial conditions matter for CRE valuations over the long term; financial tightening can produce measurable near-term price declines, with distributional effects across sectors and states.\n- Policymakers should consider household indebtedness and sectoral exposure (notably retail) when assessing vulnerability to financial tightening.\n\nSource: IMF Working Paper \"Commercial Real Estate in Crisis: Evidence from Transaction-Level Data\", authors Adrian Alter, Elizabeth M. Mahoney, Cristian Badarinza; January 27, 2023.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Working Paper\n  - Working Paper (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Working Paper (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2023/01/27/commercial-real-estate-in-crisis-evidence-from-transaction-level-data-528653"
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    "Published: January 27, 2023",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400231070.001",
    "Focus: commercial real estate (CRE) market dynamics in the U.S. over the past two decades, covering major disruptions including the global financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.",
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    "Uses both reduced-form approaches and a structural framework to identify roles of local demand shocks, preference shifts during crises, and macro-financial linkages.",
    "Crisis response and monitoring should account for strong local demand-side effects in the short run and shifting preferences across crisis episodes.",
    "Macro-financial conditions matter for CRE valuations over the long term; financial tightening can produce measurable near-term price declines, with distributional effects across sectors and states.",
    "Policymakers should consider household indebtedness and sectoral exposure (notably retail) when assessing vulnerability to financial tightening.",
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