White of Real Capital Analytics speaks at WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate's January breakfast program

Robert White, Jr., CRE, founder and president of Real Capital Analytics Inc., spoke at WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate (WX)'s breakfast program, entitled "State of the Market: 2014 Forecast of Emerging Real Estate Trends," on January 14th at the Harvard Club. White summarized 2013 year-end trends and statistics and analyzed the data to project 2014 industry movements. He examined the effects of fluctuation and availability of capital on real estate investment by major investors and outlined how these decisions will impact various sectors of the U.S. real estate market. White predicts a full recovery for U.S. capital markets triggered by equity growth and abated distressed selling. According to White, Manhattan, San Francisco, Dallas and Houston will continue as favored commercial real estate locations, while lagging markets, including Las Vegas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Miami and tertiary locales, as well as lagging property types, such as suburban office and industrial, will see modest but healthy growth in the coming year. White explained that the next phase of recovery will largely depend on rent growth and occupancy gains, with higher interest rates expected to curb, not reverse, price appreciation. As the founder and president of Real Capital Analytics Inc., an international research firm that publishes the Capital Trends Monthly, White oversees the production of real time data concerning the capital markets for commercial real estate and the values of commercial properties. His clients include some of the industry's leading brokerage firms, institutional advisors, REITs, developers, foreign investors and banks. Mr. White is a noted authority on real estate capital markets with credits in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, The Economist, Forbes, New York Times, Financial Times, among others.