China-Based Investors Don’t Care About Brexit

There has been a lot of talk about how Brexit will impact commercial real estate in London. GRS Group already reported that it hasn’t shied buyers away from the European metropolis. Now investors based in China have upped the ante. In the first six months of 2017,...

Home-Rental Market Gets Major Lift

Commercial real estate’s multifamily market gets plenty of coverage and analysis for its continued success over the last decade. But the single-family rental market has not received as much attention. That has changed with the $10.7-billion merger between Blackstone...

Spirit’s REIT Spinoff SpinCo Shows Net Lease Confidence

The net-lease sector of commercial real estate has been strong throughout economic cycles, and now there is more evidence of perceived investor interest in these types of assets. Major net-lease REIT Spirit Realty is splitting off part of its portfolio into a separate...

Staples and the Death of Big-Box Competition

It wasn’t long ago when there were several large national big-box retail chains that sold a singular category item, such as books, electronics, toys and even men’s formalwear. You can potentially add office supplies to that list. There are reports that Staples could...

CMBS Experiences a Q2 Climb

Good news for commercial real estate borrowers came from CBRE recently. Commercial loan closings rose 27 percent year over year during the second quarter, reported the commercial real estate services firm. Much of this had to do with a spike in CMBS issuances, which...