Will Florida’s New Mall be an “American Dream?”

Will Florida’s New Mall be an “American Dream?”

There hasn’t been a whole lot of good news about malls as of late. Legitimate forecasts or not, some say that hundreds of malls could close in coming years, due to the problems that department stores face. Well, one developer is completely ignoring those warnings....
Report: CRE Transactions Get Q1 Lift, But Prices Fall

Report: CRE Transactions Get Q1 Lift, But Prices Fall

There hasn’t been a slowdown yet, if one is coming. Commercial real estate transactions during the first quarter hit $107 billion across the five major property sectors, a year-on-year increase of 6.7 percent, according to Ten-X Commercial, citing Real Capital...
RECon Amid a Changing Retail Sector

RECon Amid a Changing Retail Sector

The retail real estate industry is adapting to change, and that is apparently not such a bad thing, though there is still hesitancy about the sector due to store closings and some malls shutting down and becoming repurposed into other uses. National Real Estate...
More Good News About Net Lease Retail

More Good News About Net Lease Retail

We reported in March about the positive dynamics in the net lease sector of commercial real estate.  A new Marcus & Millichap report on this year’s first half further backs up that sentiment. It says that despite the growth in online retail sales, there is still...
Self-Storage Investor Interest Expected to Increase

Self-Storage Investor Interest Expected to Increase

More institutional players are getting involved in self-storage investment according to recent reports.  That, in part, led to a decrease in fourth-quarter cap rates, from 6.5 percent to 6.3 percent year over year, according to data by Real Capital Analytics, as...