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...

Store Closings, As Well as Openings, Across Retail

It’s difficult to understand the retail real estate climate right now. There is a lot of news about store closings right now. But at the same time, there are several chains opening locations, too. Fung Global Retail & Technology releases a regular retail report...

2016: A Choppy Year for the Net-Lease Sector

From time to time, GRS Group likes to highlight its clients and industry associates that are thought leaders in commercial real estate. For this installment, we have a guest column by Daniel Herrold, a senior director with Stan Johnson Co., who weighs in on the...

ICSC Western Division: What We Learned

As GRS Group does every year, we hit the ICSC Western Division conference in San Diego earlier this month. Besides the networking with clients, and making some great connections, both new and current, we learned a lot of great information about the retail real estate...

ICSC RECon From the Floor: Net Lease Is Still Dominant

  GRS | Title director, Allen Brown reports in from ICSC RECon: “At the International Council of Shopping Centers’ major RECon 2016 show, the buzz in the net-lease retail sector is about expansion and growth. Three restaurant franchisors/franchisees that I...