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With 10 year treasuries at just under 3%, we’ve seen about a 100 bp rise in rates over the last couple of months.  Is this finally affecting the super hot, investment grade, single tenant, [...]

Columbus has added about 3,000 downtown apartments or condos over the last ten years and the pace of new construction and redevelopment is quickening.   It will take a while to get back to where [...]

Construction started a couple of weeks ago on a $370,000,000 project to add 3,200 beds to the OSU student housing to comply with the new requirement that sophomores in addition to freshman live [...]

True, this is a little off topic, but I post my videos every year for a few car events and the world’s biggest is the Woodward Dream Cruise held last weekend in the suburbs north of [...]

I continue to need  corporate leased, triple net retail c-stores such as 7-11, Circle K, Get Go (Giant Eagle) or Turkey Hill (Kroger).  Gas preferred on the triple net retail C-stores due to the [...]

What I have been experiencing over the last two or three quarters in regards to triple net or absolute net, single tenant retail seems to be reality according many in the industry, including Mark [...]

We all know that the single tenant, triple net, national credit, retail supply has been tight all year with cap rates falling to the 5 to 6% range.  I expect to see the supply side loosen up a [...]

Single tenant, net leased retail has continued to gain strength as an asset class.  With an economy barely growing, one could wonder why is triple net and absolute net retail as strong as it is?  [...]

Buyer need – Corporate leased triple net c-store such as 7-11, Circle K, Walgreens or CVS with 8 years or more unexpired absolute net lease for 1031 SoCal buyer. Gas or without gas is fine [...]

The National Association of Realtors sums it up pretty well in the attached August 2012 Commercial Real Estate Outlook when they opine that the economy has gone on vacation.  That’s pretty [...]

I attended a seminar last week sponsored by the Columbus Board of Realtors with one of our largest regional banks, and I want to disseminate some of what I heard.  Banks once again have [...]

Today, I’m going to take a look at the preferred type of product for most of my buyers, and frankly for most buyers on the market these days, and that is triple net or absolute net, single [...]

Unfortunately, we may have a much better reason in a few months to do a 1031 exchange when and if the Bush tax cuts expire.  However, there will likely be folks who decide to cash out and sell [...]

Buyer need – Corporate leased triple net c-store such as 7-11 or Circle K  with 8 years or more unexpired absolute net lease for SoCal buyer. Gas or without gas is fine. Single tenant only. [...]

First quarter 2012 softened a bit as compared to fourth quarter 2011, but net absorption remained positive according to Mark Heschmeyer of CoStar news.   Plus, a mild slowdown in the rate of [...]

As primary markets get ridiculously overpriced and the much preferred single tenant, triple net or absolute net corporate leased retail properties more and more unavailable, investor focus is [...]

CoStar’s monthly National Composite Index of Commercial Real Estate posted gains in eight of the last nine months for January 2012.  True, it’s March 15, 2012, but it takes them around 45 days to [...]

Several new under construction, 20 year absolute net leased, single tenant, single parcel Walgreens in various areas of the country are available as of today, individually or as a portfolio. This [...]

It’s a mix of both moderately good news and some bad news.   Starting with the bad news is that we had a major drop off in construction and development funding from $321 billion last to $240 [...]

Randyl Drummer from CoStar news writes, and I agree, that retail rents will begin to rise this year. It’s not so much a huge increase in demand as much as there is virtually no increase in [...]