Retail condos, a long-time favorite of investors looking for exposure to urban markets, have become even more desirable. Growing demand from retail tenants and rising rental rates are enticing a wider variety of buyers, from institutional...
The national office vacancy as of the third quarter is at its lowest point since before the recession, at about 13.4 percent, with some markets seeing historic increases in tenant demand and subsequent construction starts...
Investors are reading the “tea leaves” in the bond market to help determine what might lie ahead for corporate real estate cap rates and property prices...
Underground warehousing and manufacturing facilities, primarily centered in the Kansas City, Mo. market, are undergoing an unprecedented development boom due to the current demand/supply imbalance.
The national industrial sector is in the mids...
Although the old adage claims that bigger is better, that may not be the case for Forever 21’s stores. The apparel retailer is rethinking the size of its stores and talking with landlords about downsizing, according to multiple sources. The move ...
As public-private partnerships increase in popularity, commercial real estate professionals who want to leverage this unique development model would be wise to take the time to understand the nuances of how, why and when they work.
Because und...
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...