As real estate investors continue to show a preference for necessity-based retail and as supermarket chains, drugstores and dollar stores try to grab the greatest market share of consumers’ food dollars, it’s more important than ever...
Lifestyle centers were the stars of the retail development universe in the 2000s. Shoppers flocked to these properties, which typically featured a single-story, open-air design and upscale tenants. Since the recession, however, only a few of these...
As the ICSC New York National Deal Making Conference draws near and leasing executives hope to bring in new tenants to their malls and shopping centers, this year’s crop of new and expanding retail concepts promises to give them plenty to...
By at least one measure, the yield on investments in apartment properties still hasn’t matched the level of the real estate boom. That’s the “risk premium” that investors demand for apartments compared to Treasury bonds...
The industrial sector may be making a comeback, but according to several ghost-hunter websites, so are many of the deceased folks who once occupied these factories and warehouses. Haunted industrial sites can be found across the country. Some of...
You may think your job's a nightmare, but however bad it may be, it's nothing compared to the experience of people who work in haunted office buildings. Upset by renovations or even too much or not enough employee turnover, ghosts have been...
If you thought ghosts only haunt old houses, think again. You can experience some pretty spooky shopping at many American retail venues. Shopping malls, big-box stores and specialty shops--the gamut of retail--play host to plenty of ghosts, many...
U.S. manufacturing is booming again, returning industrial capacity utilization back to historical averages. Vacancy rates are now below a cyclical low—falling 30 basis points in the second quarter and are predicted to end the year toward 7...
Why do malls die? Sometimes it's due to outmoded business models. Other times, it's caused by economic downturn or extreme changes in demographics or fashions. Or grandiose ideas of development that can't possibly be realized. Or bad...
Eight charts from an exclusive survey conducted jointly by NREI and the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry (NIC) show a bullish outlook for the seniors housing sector...
