11/1/2024
Commercial Real Estate Market Update 2024
The commercial real estate market continues to show resilience with strong demand for retail and industrial properties.
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10/15/2024
Net Lease Investments Trending Upward
Net lease properties are becoming increasingly popular among investors seeking passive income and reduced management responsibilities.
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12/16/2023
Starbucks Plans to Have 55,000 Locations by 2030
In October, Starbucks framed its decision to close 800 locations as a repositioning more than a retraction. But to what aim exactly wasn’t clear.
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12/16/2023
A Changed Retail Environment Yields New Investor Opportunities
The pandemic has hastened the demise of many retailers but has been far from the sole ailment.
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12/16/2023
Investors are Looking into U.S. Industrial Properties
Driven by the pandemic, acceleration in online shopping and an increase in onshoring of manufacturing, demand for industrial space continues to outpace supply in many markets. Over the last couple of months, a significant number of large industrial portfolios and…
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12/16/2023
Restaurant Brands that Unveiled New Store Prototypes
Quick-service, fast-casual and casual-dining restaurants were all impacted by the COVID pandemic, forcing a change in future store designs to accommodate more technology and less dine-in In a year where COVID-19 forced every single brand to rethink operations, innovation abounded…
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9/16/2023
Dollar General’s New Popshelf Stores
Dollar General’s next big strategy for growth is tucked in a strip mall in suburban Nashville, and it is coming to other cities soon. It’s a new store called Popshelf. Over the past two years, the Tennessee-based discounter has tested…
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9/16/2023
Ground Leases as a Financing Tool
Commercial real estate has always involved an awkward marriage of sorts. Fundamentally, building owners — be they retailers, office landlords, multifamily operators — make their money by conceptualizing, positioning, repositioning and otherwise running their properties to attract and retain tenants….
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9/16/2023
Strong Demand for Health Care REITs
Health care REITs own and manage a variety of health care related real estate and collect rent from tenants. Health care REITs’ property types include senior living communities, hospitals, medical office buildings, and skilled nursing facilities. The aging of the…
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12/9/2020
QSR Properties Remain Demanded by Investors
QSR Properties Remain Demanded by Investors
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12/9/2020
What Will the QSR Experience Look Like in 2021?
Customer-centric innovation remains the top target. But how has that changed? Burger King’s restaurant
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12/9/2020
Retail Will Shape the Future of Healthcare
The pandemic has accelerated demand for retail healthcare, according to a new report from UPshow.
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12/2/2020
Walgreens to Open More VillageMD Clinics
The retailer plans to open primary care clinics in Houston, El Paso, Austin, Phoenix and Orlando by next
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12/2/2020
As Customers Move Online, So Does the Holiday Shopping Season
Empty stores are turning into fulfillment centers and the market for warehouse space is booming, as the
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12/2/2020
Is the New C-Store Here to Stay?
There is no arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way consumers shop and how retailers
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12/2/2020
Jack in the Box Energized and Prepared to Grow
The chain is testing a new prototype and providing operators with a low-cost refresh. Life at Jack in the Box couldn’t be much better. In Q4, the chain saw its best same-store sales since 1994 as systemwide comps grew 12.2…
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12/2/2020
Zaxby’s Dream of Going National Comes Calling
After selling a ‘significant’ stake to Goldman Sachs, the 30-year-old chicken chain sets sights on
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11/19/2020
Targeting Retail Assets in the Current Market
The U.S. retail sector has taken a beating due to lockdowns and social distancing and the continued
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11/18/2020
What Can Real Estate Expect from the Biden Administration?
Industry experts are keeping an eye on affordable housing, pandemic relief and other hot topics.
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11/18/2020
Bidding Wars Underway for Industrial Assets
Boosted by the pandemic, positive industrial real estate fundamentals are driving asset values to record highs, particularly “last mile” properties in core urban
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11/18/2020
Looking Back on 60 Years of REITs
It’s been six decades since REITs first came on the scene and the structure is as vital as ever within the broader
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11/11/2020
REIT Average & Historical Returns vs. U.S. Stocks
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, concerns about its toll on the U.S.
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11/11/2020
Chick-fil-A’s Modular Restaurant Construction November 11, 2020
This past month, Chick-fil-A quietly opened a location that could reimagine its construction for years to come.
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11/11/2020
The Era of Small-Box Restaurants Has Arrived
The volatile post-pandemic indoor dining experience
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11/11/2020
The Future of Retail is Net Lease
While many types of retail have been devastated by the pandemi
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10/28/2020
Preparing for “New” Holiday Shopping Season
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic anxiety,
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10/28/2020
Burger King to Modernize 10,000 Drive-Thrus
In early September, Burger King unveiled restaurant designs for the future,
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10/28/2020
Zaxby’s Enters the Chicken Sandwich Wars
The story of last summer ignited August 19 when Popeyes decided to troll Chick-fil-A on Twitter.
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10/28/2020
Moody’s: CRE’s Bid-Ask Spread Widens
A rise in cap rates will cause commercial real estate values to drop from 7 to 9
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10/21/2020
COVID & Financial Reporting
CRE owners need to consider collectability of rent payments and lease concessions in their financial reporting.
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10/21/2020
Proposition 15 Case Study
Are commercial property owners in California paying their fair share in taxes?
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10/18/2020
Understanding CRE Valuations and Appraisals
It’s prudent to keep in mind what questions you are trying to answer with an appraisal before engaging an appraiser.
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10/14/2020
Dollar General Targets New Shoppers
Dollar General is launching a new store, Popshelf, aimed at wealthier customers.
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10/14/2020
Customers Still Like to Shop In Person
When the pandemic forced Dick’s Sporting Goods to close its hundreds of stores in March
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10/14/2020
What’s Next for Convenience Store Sites?
LONDON—In the latest Shop Talk Live, the “Future of Drive-Thru and Convenience Store Planning,”
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