Net Lease Investors Hungry for Quick-Serve Restaurants

Aug 20, 2015

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...

Perfecting the Development Pitch for Student Housing

Aug 17, 2015

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...

6 Ways REITs Benefit from Third-Party Property Management

Aug 10, 2015

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...

Are These 11 Seattle Tall Buildings Made to Withstand the Coming Mega-Quake?

Jul 30, 2015

San Francisco-based seismic engineer Peter Yanev, writing in an op-ed in the New York Times in response to the 2010 earthquake in Chile, says there is, essentially, no such thing as an earthquake-proof building...

10 Highest Paid REIT CEOs

Jul 23, 2015

Dreaming of that CEO chair? You probably want to know how much you’d get paid. To help you figure out whether all the responsibility would be worth it, Charlottesville, Va.-based research firm SNL Real Estate has published a compensation...

A Millennial’s Perspective on Commercial Real Estate

Jul 21, 2015

We’ve all read about the new Millennial wave that’s going to take over home-buying in residential real estate. The not-so-new story is that Millennials are the next home buyers and we’ve all got to keep up with the technology in order to close th...