U.S. investors remained active overseas amid a sharp decline in inbound capital flows. :
Foreign investment in U.S. commercial real estate plunged by 54 percent in 2019, falling short of outbound investment for the first time in six years, according to a new report by CBRE. The dramatic drop in overseas capital flows was largely caused by a pullback in entity-level sales last year, after a string of blockbuster M&A transactions buoyed investment volumes in 2018. Excluding such entity-level deals, inbound investment in 2019 declined by 12.1 percent year-on-year.