Patricia Kirk

Over 1,800 companies re-shored production in 2021, setting a new record for re-shoring activity, notes The Reshoring Initiative. These companies are looking for logistics facilities, warehouses and distribution sites.

The pandemic caused many institutional investors to switch their focus to industrial properties. Now that interest rates are rising, they are changing course again.

How one private equity real estate firm is trying to bring flexible industrial facilities to the market in U.S. cities with its Portal Warehousing offering.

Energy tenants are beginning to enter expansion mode. But facing new hybrid schedules and higher rents, they are taking less space than before.

For two years, headlines have screamed about a bloodbath in the office sector. Research from Moody’s Analytics shows those headlines have little in common with reality.

With human interaction cited among the main reasons for workers to go into the office, landlords are focusing on common spaces and gyms.

The country’s ports are experiencing a reduction in backlogs. But global instability is leading companies to hoard warehouse space.

The dynamics in the cold storage sector are complicated, but the outlook remains strong.