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 support $1.4 trillion in retail sales (on 2022 dollars basis),” Prologis reported. This has happened despite automation and data analytics advancements, to create what it calls “the supply chain productivity paradox….”
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 month which can carry more risk…
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 up in logistics. Each unit of growth now needs 20% more additional logistics then before the pandemic.
New apartment construction is on track to top a 50-year high, with nearly 461,000 units expected to be built across the U.S. this year, according to a new report…
Self Storage Isn’t Just For Hoarders: A Primer For Investors September 5, 2023 | Fred Hubler | Forbes Only one asset class has an average occupancy of 92% and outperformed other asset classes in 2021, self-storage. Self-storage can be a viable option for those looking for alternative investment opportunities. Self-storage can provide passive income, inflation protection (rates can …
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KBRA releases its Business Development Company Ratings Compendium, which looks at results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, and offers a review of perpetual continuously offered non-traded BDCs as well as recent industry developments….
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….
For the past three years Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the $1.43 trillion Government Pension Fund Global, has managed its listed and unlisted real estate teams under one umbrella. It was part of a re-organisation to bring the teams closer together following the 2019 shift to manage the real estate exposure in one combined strategy…
US hotel performance weakened during the week ended August 26, matching historical seasonal patterns, STR reported, citing the latest data from CoStar, which provides information and analytics in the property markets.
U.S real estate investment trusts today manage $4.5 trillion in real estate worldwide. Many groups on Wall Street offer these tax-friendly funds to retail investors.
U.S real estate investment trusts today manage $4.5 trillion in real estate worldwide. Many groups on Wall Street offer these tax-friendly funds to retail investors. KKR’s real estate business is one of the big players in the REIT game. The private equity firm manages multiple REIT funds. The KKR Real Estate Select Trust, which currently manages $1.5 billion in assets, paid a dividend of 5.4% to its investors in July 2023…
US equity real estate investment trusts saw weaker gains on same-store net operating income during the second quarter. S&P Global Market Intelligence prefers to take cash-based same-store net operating income, if available. However, a noncash-based net operating income will be used if not…
US hotel performance declined during the week ended Aug. 12, STR reported, citing the latest data from CoStar, which provides information and analytics in the property markets…
In the face of market uncertainty, CRE lending slowed in the second quarter, according to CBRE. The company’s Lending Momentum Index fell from 204 in the first quarter to 193 in the second quarter, representing declines of 5.4 percent from the first quarter and 52.2 percent year-over-year….
Fully 95% of advisors surveyed said they plan to maintain or even increase their exposure to alternative investments, a largely unregulated and illiquid asset class, over the next 12 months, according to iCapital….
After years of trepidation, institutional money is flowing back into retail. Crow Holdings and Lincoln Property Co. are among the prominent firms that have launched new endeavors aimed at spending billions of dollars to acquire more retail real estate…
2023 is officially the year of the return-to-office mandate, with nearly 3 million workers already under, or expected to be subject to, a new in-person work requirement in the coming months…
Capital markets activity by US equity real estate investment trusts slowed in July as the industry collected a total of $4.25 billion, a more than 38% drop from the $6.87 billion raised in June but a massive jump from the $426.4 million raised a year earlier…
Space at open-air shopping centers is so constrained, a major retailer’s bankruptcy may have actually been good news. Early in the second quarter, Bed Bath & Beyond went bankrupt and began closing its 480 remaining stores…
The end of 2007 was a tense time for commercial real estate. The subprime mortgage crisis had spread worldwide, the lending market had dried up, and the Federal Reserve began to cut interest rates in a bid to stop turmoil in the housing and financial markets from tanking the economy…
US hotel performance showed mixed results during the week ended July 29, STR reported, citing the latest data from CoStar, which provides information and analytics in the property markets. Occupancy slightly dropped to 72.2% from 72.9% a week earlier and was up 0.6% from the comparable week in 2022.
Moody’s remains the last of the three major credit rating agencies to maintain a top rating for the United States, after Fitch cut the sovereign rating earlier this week and Standard & Poor’s lowered it in 2011…
It may seem like an odd time to launch a new commercial property venture, with interest rates at a 22-year high and valuations of basically every property type dropping, but a fresh wave of nontraded REITs has arrived to take advantage of those very same conditions…
The industrial sector is still delivering a wave of development across the country that started during the pandemic-era boom, but new data shows demand is not keeping up with the pace of new supply….
Qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) tracked by Novogradac reported raising $2.01 billion in equity over the first six months of 2023, including $1.33 billion during the second quarter of the year. Equity reported by QOFs tracked by Novogradac reached a cumulative $36.10 billion as of June 30, 2023. Novogradac is tracking 1,731 QOFs, of which 1,330 report a specific amount raised…