Office amenities are a hot commodity. While the focus, in the wake of the Great Recession, has been on keeping costs down and delivering low bottom lines to tenants, that’s giving way to differentiation through quality, making a building...
Private equity firm Sycamore Partners plans to acquire department store chain Belk Inc. for $3 billion. Charlotte, N.C.-based Belk, which is the nation’s largest family-owned-and-operated department store chain, with close to 300 stores in 16 sou...
After the global financial crash, it seemed like the housing market would take years to work through its inventory of unwanted single-family houses—and it did. Investors bought hundreds of thousands of houses at low prices, often out of...
Micro-housing is hot, as it fits with national trends toward more renters who rent for longer periods of time, and a lower supply of affordable housing across the country. Not surprisingly, major cities lacking in housing—for instance, New...
Investor demand for net-lease quick-service restaurant (QSR) properties is hotter than an order of McDonald’s French fries. The price point, coupled with long-term leases, rental escalations and recognizable brand names, makes these QSR propertie...
Developers who want to attract investors to their student housing deals should practice their pitch.
“Know your numbers. Know your market. Do your homework,” says Dorothy Jackman, managing director of the student housing group for Colliers Int...
Public REITs can achieve cost savings by outsourcing property-level services, according to a newly released report by CBRE.
The report, based on an internal study regarding third-party property management for public REITs, was undertaken by Da...
