Any real estate agent can tell you—location matters. Location used to mean being in the right neighborhood, proximity to mass transit or having good restaurants nearby. But today, location also means proximity to quality cellphone coverage...
Among the many topics we explored at IREM’s recent fall conference in San Diego was how to optimize mixed-use retail. Outsiders might take for granted the site of first-floor shopping or other amenities in an office or multifamily building...
We are in a competitive financing environment, with debt and mezzanine lenders competing for borrowers. As alternative lenders step up their activity this year, the stretch senior loan is a hybrid product that borrowers can turn to...
As more high-rise office buildings open in the major U.S. markets, experts say the new trophy space will provide an added boost to already high average leasing rates in those markets. However, this trend is only expected to last through 2017, with...
Pension funds have been following a clear path of increasing allocations to real estate over the past several years. Despite signs of a maturing market cycle, it appears that most institutions are likely to maintain that same course in 2017...
Urban life has changed quite a lot since the onset of the Great Recession in 2008. The new “creative class,” comprising technology workers, scientists, architects, artists and writers, has been migrating from the suburbs to &ldquo...
Griffin Capital Corp. is celebrating a $1 billion milestone for its Griffin Institutional Access Real Estate Fund (GIREX). The fund hit that mark in total assets under management well ahead of expectations, a little more than two years after its...