The commercial real estate and construction industries listened for clues to how the administration will address issues most important to them – starting with whether Congress will ever do anything beyond argue.

“People tuned into the speech to get a sense of the direction of the country, the direction of Washington,” Joe Brennan, managing director of government investor services for Jones Lang LaSalle, told GlobeSt.com. “We all know, though, that the President can’t propose anything that the House will agree to.”