It has been a hard year to work in commercial real estate. Things are looking up, with two rate cuts and more seemingly on the horizon bringing an expected market turnaround.

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“2026 will be where the real explosion happens,” CRE Recruiting CEO Allison Weiss said. “The pendulum has kind of swung back from being a candidate's market to an employer's market, and I think because of that, there's some downward pressure on compensation. I do see some stagnation as it relates to compensation overall.”

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