Fed Warns of Vulnerabilities Building in Commercial Real Estate
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The Federal Reserve warned that prices in the commercial real-estate market may have run up too far too fast.
Valuations in commercial real estate “appear increasingly vulnerable to negative shocks, as CRE prices have continued to outpace rental income,” the Fed said in its semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress. The Fed noted that prices exceed their pre-crisis peaks by some measures.