After a pandemic-related slowdown, cross-border investment in US commercial real estate is on the selective rise.

“We did see a slowdown [of international investment] during the pandemic,” Riaz Cassum, executive managing director and global head of international capital at JLL Capital Markets, tells GlobeSt.com. “A lot of it was related to travel restrictions and difficulty in terms of being able to look at real estate, meeting with operating partners, et cetera.”