CIM Group opens six-story apartment building in West Adams featuring rooftop terrace, high-end lounge and easy public transportation access.
July 30, 2024
Commercial Real Estate
July 30, 2024
May 9, 2024
Alternative Investments in 2024: Our Suggestions on What to Watch
Here, we look across the landscape of alternatives strategies and ideas for 2024: private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure and secondary strategies.
May 7, 2024
Commercial Real Estate’s Private Credit Market Is Just Revving Up
I expect banks to actively decrease their commercial real estate exposure, resulting in a scarcity of debt capital, which is unlikely to change meaningfully for the next few years.
November 7, 2023
A Perspective on the Current Trend in CRE Cap Rates
"These supply and demand factors can have a significant impact on future returns, and the prospects of lower future returns will be reflected in cap rates."
September 27, 2023
Prologis Explains Why Today’s Supply Chains Require More Logistics Space
In today’s world, 57% more logistics real estate is required to support $1 billion in retail sales than a decade ago, a new analysis by Prologis has found. Ten years ago, 500,000 SF would have been sufficient to do the job. Today, 800,000 SF is needed. “Today, these supply chains amount to 1.2 billion SF and…
September 27, 2023
Why Real Estate Investors Like the Self-Storage Industry
There are many reasons why the self-storage sector attracts real estate investors. For one, it is recession-resistant with predictable revenue. Also, customers for self-storage units are typically paying a relatively low rent, as opposed to single-tenant real estate such as retail or office buildings where occupants are on the hook for a bigger check each…
September 27, 2023
Prologis Looks at Four Global Trends Impacting Logistics
Logistics giant Prologis has been looking at the forces affecting logistics real estate and points to four areas that will have the biggest impact. First is a fall in volatility “because of the multiplier effect on demand and structural discipline in supply.” One is a “multiplier effect on demand.” More economic activity is now tied…
September 13, 2023
It Should Be Obvious What Rising Rates Are Doing to Commercial Real Estate
In an article we published on the Blue Vault website on September 6, 2023, we asked the question “What Happened to Ares Industrial REIT’s NAVs.” After looking at the possible relationship between Ares Industrial REIT’s NAVs over the past two years and the monthly returns posted by NAREIT’s listed REITs categorized as “Industrial” REITs, we…
September 8, 2023
Private Debt Exceeds Investor Expectations; RE Debt Funds Target ‘huge void’
Of all alternatives, private debt has most outperformed expectations over the past year. 90% of institutional investors that responded to Preqin survey reported that private debt had met or exceeded their expectations over the past year....
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