By Jinjoo Lee Strip malls are hot. With investor anxiety rising about types of commercial property from shiny office buildings to self-storage facilities, the low-slung structures are a rare bright spot. Retailers want to stay close to where customers are spending more time these days: their homes. The leased occupancy rate at strip center real-estate investment trusts […]
Bed Bath & Beyond locations across America will soon be replaced by Burlington Stores outposts and a range of other businesses, after the failed home goods retailer auctioned off its leases as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, court records show. The doomed big-box store selected bidders for 109 of its leases after a Monday auction. Off-price giant Burlington agreed […]
By Erik Sherman Since partway into the pandemic, distress has been a, well, distressing topic. People expected it immediately but then values, prices, and rent growth grew at historically high paces. Then came inflation and, eventually, interest rate jumps that put many properties into a questionable ability to gain refinancing. In a report on May 2023 […]
by : Austen Hufford A crash in office values could start a doom loop with banks, with falling prices leading to less finance and thus lower prices. Gloomsters think that could spread across the multitrillion-dollar commercial real-estate sector, sucking money out of the economy as banks and institutional investors turn more cautious, James Mackintosh reports. Mori Trust […]
By Andy Medici – Senior Reporter If CEOs want employees back in the office, they need to think beyond productivity alone. That’s according to Annie Dean, vice president of team anywhere at software tool company Atlassian, who said productivity-focused company mandates to bring workers back to the office remain a tough sell to workers who have now […]
By: Emily Fu Hines has completed the demolition phase to commence construction on Chelsea Point, a strategic industrial development site in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Located at 250 Marginal Street, the 146,409-square-foot Class A facility will feature a 36-foot clear height and flexible design for single or multi-tenant uses. Construction is expected to be finished in […]
By Abha Bhattarai Business has been so slow at the Corner Bar & Diner that many nights, owner Serena Rice closes her New Underwood, S.D., watering hole at 8 p.m., six hours early. Fewer people are stopping in — and when they do, they’re ordering $3 well whiskeys instead of their usual $5 pours of Crown […]
Hugh F. Kelly For the past couple of years, we have all been urged to “follow the science” in making decisions in a variety of areas of human behavior, from public health to public policy, as though scientific understanding provided a unique and unambiguous guide to what we ought to do. I have argued for […]
By Erik Sherman Along with bank liquidity issues, CMBS delinquencies are an important sign of CRE health. Possibly more so because they show not just trouble on the horizon but already in the rear-view mirror. A new Trepp analysis suggests that sometime in May, the red flags were starting to unfurl. The CMBS delinquency rate jumped […]
By Andy Medici – Senior Reporter, The Playbook, The Business Journals Small-business loans are becoming both harder to get and more expensive — and that combination is expected to get worse. While we previously have written about the tightening credit market — driven in part by the Federal Reserve’s sustained interest rate increases over the last year — […]
