The U.S. commercial property market is on the upswing after a predicted collapse that never quite happened. According to Bloomberg News, commercial properties sold by institutional investors last year rose in price by 19 percent, which, according to the MIT Center for Real Estate, is the second-largest price gain ever for those types of sales. Meanwhile, Real Capital Analytics recorded investments in office properties last year at $41.6 billion, more than double what was invested in that sector in 2009, and the commercial mortgage-backed securities market is also beginning to rebound. Comments