How Certain Real Estate Investments Outperform the Stock Market
The real estate investor, author and Apartment Building Investing Podcast host describes the real estate investments that he favors over stocks. NEW YORK CITY—Although average stock market returns over 15-year periods can look quite high, Michael Blank, the author of...
Appetite Strong But Cautious for Cannabis Real Estate
With the legalization of cannabis, there is a lot of excitement for new real estate uses, but there are still challenges to investing. The legalization of cannabis in California has been followed—and in some ways even preceded by—a rush of real estate investment to...
7-Eleven Tests If the Home of the Giant Blue Slurpee Can Also Sell Craft Beer and Cappuccino
Customers place an order at the Laredo Taco counter in the 7-Eleven Inc. lab concept store in Dallas, Texas. (Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images) ‘Lab Store’ Concept Emphasizes More Upscale Items On the theory that customers can’t live on hot dogs and Slurpees alone,...
Talk Of Interest Rate Cuts Boosts The Stock Market, But Don’t Expect A Similar CRE Windfall
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated last week the central bank could soon cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade. While commercial real estate typically welcomes rate cuts, economists don’t think it will drastically alter the...
Multifamily Rent Growth Gets Serious
The average US multifamily rent increased by $12 to $1,465 in June, according to Yardi-Matrix. June was an inflection point for US multifamily rent growth, according to new figures by Yardi-Matrix. Following several months this year of slow rent growth, rents rose...
Even With Growing Rents, Tenant Improvements Are Eating Into Landlord Margins
Building office amenities is frequently referred to as an arms race, and it is taking an increasing toll on landlords. Tenant improvement costs are rising much faster than rents across the country, according to Real Capital Markets' 2019 Office Investor Sentiment...
Housing Experts Want More Building, Less Regulation To Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis
Costly gateway markets are battling an affordable housing crisis, but even smaller inland U.S. cities are tackling their own affordability problems. Active government may be making the problem even costlier. High rents and home costs in places like Boston and San...
Men And Women Agree CRE Is Becoming A Better Place For Women – Just Not On The Rate Of Progress
Most in commercial real estate agree that the industry has made significant strides in its ongoing efforts to promote gender equality, according to a new poll. “While most respondents agreed that the industry has made improvements in the way it treats women — and this...
Florida remains a hotspot for CRE development
Industry group says state ranks fifth in overall commercial development nationwide It’s not just your imagination: Florida is booming. The state ranked fifth in the U.S. for all commercial real estate development, according to an annual survey by an affiliate of the...
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